All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

Your purpose is to remember your purpose

During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.

Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges.

I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

I like breaking the rules.

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.