“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.”

If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.

If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.

Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.

I’m a plain soap kind of guy.

It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.

Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.

There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .

There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise – we are already wise.

I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.

It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

So fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.