Alan Quotes

Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

The tub helps me relax, and it's a great place to read.

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

I'm a plain soap kind of guy.

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

Whatever you tax you get less of.

These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.