The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

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.

Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

I'm not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.