The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'

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.

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?

Bernie Saunders is like a fly buzzing around a bowl of rotten fruit. Long hail this fly!

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.

Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

Aim at being loved without being admired.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.

Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.