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

...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

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

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.

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.

Qualifications or not without gratitude you not qualified enough to be a leader.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

There are “bus bench” workouts and “park bench” workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different.

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.

You should never, ever apologize for anything that makes you happy.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.