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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.

I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?

People who have character follow through. They don't lie to themselves or anyone else. They don't start something, ten give up because it's "hard." People of character set a goal and stick to it.

My talent is that I do not appreciate money in the waythe world appreciates money.The Religion Of The Blue CircleReligious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansNovember 16, 2016

I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.

I want women and girls everywhere to know - deep in their bone marrow - that girls are born special, whole, and perfect, and nothing can alter that.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

He is afraid of you, so he hates you. It would be wrong to hurt him again. It would be like beating a dog after it has loosed it's bladder. The spirit is already broken in him.

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists.

In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.