When we saw a down tick in the economy, pet businesses continued to do OK, ... People were very elastic when it came to spending for their pets.

The number of targets is proliferating faster than the increase in the rate of joining all across the nonprofit economy. I'm convinced that if we look at the membership rolls of the associations that are complaining about membership, they're getting a lot of people rotating off and that's absolutely a function of competition.

The economy doesn't really look like it's falling off a cliff.

Our economy is doing fine, so we can absorb the impact, ... Nobody [in the U.S. economy] is being hurt right now.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.