Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.