“In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.”

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.

The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,

Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.

Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.

The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.