C.S. Friedman Quotes

Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

I'm ready for anything. That's probably why it never happens.

The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one.

If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.

If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.

I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.

I'm not for the parties. I'm for Texas.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory.

There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician.

Simón Bolívar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him.

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.

When you record something, you never know who's going to hear it.

I want to see a Jew in the White house.

Always beware of people offering you one-time money. That only works in an election year. How are you going to permanently pay for education?

I don't see how the people who created the problem can fix it. Texas is worth fighting for, and the best way to fight is to get the politicians out of politics.

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space.

If you gotta kill two birds, might as well get stoned.

He looked a shade too healthy and nobody likes that. Particularly in New York.

I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.

It wasn't a healthy attitude, but it wasn't really a healthy world.

I see an issue I like, and I support it.

I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football.

Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign.

Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart. And both of them were independents, by the way.

They probably would've taken Jesus if he hadn't been nailed down.

I believe that voices like Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader should be heard. They don't have to be president. Give 'em a chance.

We're going to make that Lone Star shine again.

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.

Law..is too important to be left to the lawyers.

Saying it is one thing. Doing it is very different.

They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.

Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and that's not a surprise. Fiscal stimulus is not stimulating in and of itself.

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.

What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?!

The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very low level.

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.

I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics.

How do you hold down government spending?