One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.

In the first place I identify this ['the equilibrium of poverty'] with primitive agriculture, and two factors have been at work there. One is, of course, popul…

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.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

'In the same way that the Soviets' Sputnik satellite woke up the country to the need for math and science education, the outsourcing conversation cries out for…

I think every gentleman on this floor is as well satisfied as I am that Duluth is destined to become the commercial metropolis of the universe, and that this r…