But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

If your intentions are good, nothing bad can happen.

Young people, look to your Bible when thinking about any matter, including getting married.

Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

You wake up every morning with a smile on your face because you've got a new day you never expected to have. And there's a sense of wonderment. Nothing short of magical.

You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believe in God. I told you of course I do - I've always had a strong sense of self

In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

What a man thinks is no concern of the government.