Away Quote by Tim Harford

“David Hudson was rising in the political field. As a senator from New York, he had it all – good looks, a well-known family…

— Yolanda Richards

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

— Iris Murdoch

“AS A KID GROWING UP IN A RURAL PENNSYLVANIA COAL COUNTRY in the 1930s and 1940s, Bill McGowan never dreamed of a career as…

— Scott Woolley

“They were men linked more to one another, their schools, their own social class and their own concerns than they were linked to the…

— David Halberstam

“Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes.…

— Joseph Heller

Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just…

— Allan H. Meltzer

“Though he continued to take classes here and there in the sciences and in business, Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature…

— Raymond Carver

The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in…

— Charles Kennedy

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

— Tom Ford

“Many reasons had been given, and every man adopted the rationale which suited his own particular emotionality. But what seemed obvious at the time…

— Robert Sheckley

“A function of Rockefeller’s personality: resilient, adaptable, calm, brilliant. He could not be rattled—not by economic crisis, not by a glittery mirage of false…

— Ryan Holiday

“George Mason’s economics department, meanwhile, became a hotbed of controversial theories that began to transform Americans’ tax bills, serving as an incubator for the…

— Jane Mayer