“We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.”

“John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.”

“Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.”

“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”

“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”

“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”

“Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.”

“We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.”

“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.”

“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”

“There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.”