It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century

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.

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

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.

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The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Amidst a crowd of strangers, I still remain unknownto myself.

Even if there were no heaven and there were no hell, would you still follow Jesus? Would you follow him for the life, joy and fulfilment he gives you right now?

If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can go safely everywhere.

This is what The Qur'an and the Bible have been prophesying - the end of a world of evil and injustice: We are at that time, now.

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds... the one thing we have more of than other apes... and let's secure their future.

When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.