C.S. Friedman Quotes

If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

I'm well aware that the Nelson Mandelas and the Winston Churchills of the world happened by accident. They usually come out of nowhere.

Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her.

The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.

A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

Young people are the key to this election.

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

You've got to find what you love and let it kill you. I don't think any of us should ever forget that.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

If you don't love Jesus-go to hell!

If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and that you would not have lower unemployment.

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.

The case against a fully independent central bank is strong indeed.

There is only one social responsibility of business

Always respect your superiors, if you have any.

Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day.

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and the rest?

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.

He moves fastest who moves alone.

The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

Sleep came slower than a frigid woman.