Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

Seperti apakah Anda? Menurut saya, paling tidak Anda adalah apa yang Anda tulis.

We should tend our freedom wisely.

Love everyone you meet, everyone will love you.

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

With love I draw what I hate.

Let’s shut down the EPA. The state knows best how to protect resources.

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.

Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.