“The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.”

If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.

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.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof

So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.

The more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest

Dignity before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart. Human virtues belong equally to all!

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist’s assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.

“You only live once” is also an equally compelling reason not to do something