The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.

Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.

To survive the daily bumps and bruises that come with living our lives, we all need a gentle and loving home both within and outside of ourselves.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

If I give you my idea and you give me yours, then we each have two ideas, and together we have four.

I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

Let's deal with each other honestly.