I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

It is the moral duty of every US voter to guarantee that Barack Hussein Obama is a one-term president.

Life never goes according to plan. That's okay, because often our plans are much smaller than life intends. Probably EASIER, but smaller.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life

But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.

In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

I couldn't kill myself. I would be afraid the minute I did it; something really good would happen and I'd miss it.

Broken necks, splattered patellas, severed arteries: These are the things from which dreams are made of.