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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place.
People make just as many mistakes when the stakes go up, maybe more.
Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.
People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.
Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.
[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
For a politician, the long term is between now and the next election.
The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
I want to be completely clear that I strongly oppose 'Audit the Fed.'
Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.
Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
The euro is going to continue to be the largest single trading block.
If you destroy a firm, you can't pull it out of bankruptcy overnight.
I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.
The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Personal wealth is the by-product of making the world a better place.
We don’t really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes.
Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.
Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes.
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.
We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.
People today dont become economists to make the world a better place.
For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.
The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.
The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.
There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.
Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.
If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.
The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.
Tax policy should reflect a country's values and address its problems.
The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.