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

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.

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.

The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.

I never learn anything from listening to myself.

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.

Hearing the record and seeing the response is affirming that it was the right time and right choice.

Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.

Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.

I carry one black mascara and one brown.

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.