These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources.

If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.

Higher saving leads to faster growth . . .

You can't rule out deflation just because you've never seen it in your lifetime.

Outsourcing American jobs will prove to be a plus for the economy in the long run. It's simply a new way of doing international trade.

But, I still can't totally forgive Dave for blowing my world apart. DO YOU HEAR THAT, DAVE?!

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and hes a good friend.

After all, a crisis doesn't make a person; it reveals what a person is made of.

I think there are roles there; we just have to choose them. We have to fight for them.