Patrick Moynihan: “The only outcome of having negotiating power and a negotiating round is to reduce the tariffs of other people.”

Everyone can have their own opinions about policy, but there is only one law of numbers and one rule of arithmetic

I say to our chairman, as evidenced by the fact that this measure was reported 19-1 in the Finance Committee. I thank the Chair. We are at a moment of history and the omens are excellent.

I dare not ask a World War II pilot veteran to lift this or the rules on ergonomics might be contradicted. But I congratulate you, sir.

If the present report is to serve any large purpose, it is to introduce the public to the thought that secrecy is a mode of regulation. In truth, it is the ultimate mode for the citizen does not even know that he or she is being regulated.