• If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

    Milton Friedman: If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation.  Make it your avocation.  Get a job.  Get a secure base of income.  Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.
    "The Best of Both Worlds". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. June 1995.