Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

There's villainous news abroad.

You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

Honestly, I just think we all have special gifts, everyone. You know, obviously, some are more noticeable than others and that's why there's the limelight. Everybody's in it.

f you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.