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I'm a futures man.
When in doubt, grab power.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It's never easy to say you're sorry.
The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
I think women are too valuable to be in combat.
Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.
Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.
Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.
Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.
Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.
Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.
Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.
Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
I happen to truly believe this: Success is a journey and not a destination.
Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.
A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.
Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.
The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party.
I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.
There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.
The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.
I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.
Jesse Jackson is not anti-Semitic, but in politics, you always get in trouble when you try to be cute.
In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.
I don't know how smart I am. I just try to be what I am. I hope I'm modest. I think that's a desirable trait.
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.
I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.
Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.
Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.
I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.
Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.
We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.
If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.
The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.
In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that's when people get hurt - and sometimes destroyed.
If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.
It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.
It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.
One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.
Let's have honest interest rates. Let's let the free market set interest rates in that zone where supply of savings is matched up with demand for real borrowing for capital projects.
I guess it is ironical that I have a chance to say to Jesse Jackson, 'You need to be mature. You need to be positive. You need to be bigger than the folks who are trying to tear you down.'