“There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country’s equality index.”

Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s callous enjoinder ‘you never want a serious crisis to go to waste’? This White House is a serious crisis.

No one wants to be first, and the auction proved to people that others were buying and gave them that boost of confidence they needed.

I need an endorphin boost. And making out in an abandoned barn with me will give you one? No, it will probably put me in an endorphin coma, and im more than happy to test the theory.

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.

So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.

It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.

As we’re on the verge of a major $1 billion boost in our annual cash flows that we expect to come from three major projects Geismar, Gulfstar and the Keathley Canyon Connector all of which have reached the commissioning stage here in the fourth quarter.

I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

I’ve always been supremely confident in my abilities. But the biggest confidence boost is when the guys around you, you feel like they have confidence in you.