"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent." 

John Kenneth Galbraith writing in 'Money: Whence it came, where it went' (1975).

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

"There's no question that this is a time when corporations have taken over the basic process of governing." 

in a PBS television interview on The Newshour shortly before his death.