Al David Quotes

Trump's rise is troubling not just on an American level but on an international level.

Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.

Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.

I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world.

I would love to have a stable, productive relationship with Russia.

Maybe Santa Claus is real. Here's the problem: reality.

There's nothing wrong with creating jobs. What's wrong is to seed the illusion that you will magically bring back the economy of 1970, that you will reopen coal mines.

We can hope that the responsibilities and realities will weigh on Donald Trump and he will not be the president we fear, but rather something more stable.

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

From a personal point of view, I'd like to interview my great-grandparents because I barely knew them, and I know next to nothing about my family beyond 100 years.

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.

We begin to inhabit oppositional and rarely intersecting mental universes having to do with ideology and fact and non-fact and news and non-news.

The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects.

I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

There are two forms of populism, left-wing populism and right-wing populism. Right-wing populism requires the denigration of an "Other." Left-wing populism tends to be about the haves and have-nots.

You are losing out because Mexican rapists are taking your job.

I don't see what was wrong with the old inkpads.

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Will do Satan's work for food.

The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.

We were born with four words engraved on our bodies and in our hearts: Love me, hold me.

Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

My rule is to use whatever feels right at the moment and then break that rule if you want.

There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film are the rules within the film.

I love horror movies, but it's not the only thing I want to do.

I like too many different kinds of movies to only want to do one kind.

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

There is always a harmonious solution... If you stand back and give yourself time to find it.

My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.

I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.