If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

Unless we do something and do it quickly, we may be going back to an economic stone age.

See the colorful possibilities from our life, we are self the creator from It to make a decision or stop it.stop

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills.

I just admire a funny, confident, sassy woman and hopefully I'm that person.

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.

Always a good clue when you see a quarterback's arm go forward and forward and the hand empty, it's an incomplete pass.

I don't want to talk about the vampire schedule. That's just gonna upset me.