As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

Monetary policy is not a panacea.

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

Pause and remember - Change will happen the moment you have the courage to change.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

I am driven by what I know; that the world I love is in trouble.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.