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No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight it.
Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.
Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites.
I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.
A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.
Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.
Social safety-net spending is an important form of public funding that helps offset disparities in family resources for children.
Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.
To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.
The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.
But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.
I think that for the developing world there are many versions of capitalism, and countries have to choose one that's appropriate.
Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.
Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest.
The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.
On one hand, our food is polluted with herbicides and on the other hand by antibiotics. And then we have hormones and pesticides.
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.
Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.
The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify.
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.
If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.
The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.
If it moves, privatize it, if it doesn't move, privatize it; since everything either moves or doesn't move, privatize everything.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
Ask me whether inflation represents longer-term problem. I think there's a potential there for excess reserves to create problems.
Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.
The Federal Reserve Act requires the Federal Reserve to report annually on its operations and to publish its balance sheet weekly.
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil
Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.