"State government works much better than probably most average Missourians think it does. The biggest thing that I realized — and it took me awhile to get this — was that the ability to change or to craft policy differences in this building takes a long time. At first, that's very aggravating to understand."

"The state is taking action against people who have peacefully demonstrated their ideas. They are writers—all they did is to express their minds through the Internet. So the pattern is very clear. The …"

"It is a special privilege for me on this occasion to have my name associated with that of Professor Bertil Ohlin. By the younger generation of economists we are no doubt both regarded as what in my co…"

"He would come up to me , look at my work, and do a critique half in English and half in German, but certainly nothing I could understand. When he left the room I would call George McNeil, who was then…"

"The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality."