The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.
The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.
The U. S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U. S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.
I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too.
I'm less certain now but kinder.
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.