It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
ALAN GREENSPANWhen trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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