You could be disqualified for a job [at Harvard] if you were either smart or Jewish or Keynesian. So what chance did this smart, Jewish, Keynesian have?

Good questions outrank easy answers.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles.

Emotions tend to get in the way of a good argument.

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn't.

We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.

When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it's one thing to do that - it's a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.