I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters.

I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It's like driving a car. It's simple if you know how to do it.

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country.

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.