“Money is not a factor of production. But in order to have access to credit, in order to get money, in order to get an education, you have to pay the banks.”

People are putting their money into treasuries because they worry that the risk of putting their money into the bond market, the stock market or even the money markets is very high.

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren’t good. Drinking’s not good. Some would say milk’s not good.

I think the less fracking there is, the better it is for the economy and society.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

When we say “people worry” about inflation, it’s mainly bondholders that worry. The labor force benefitted from the inflation of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.

I’m always being inspired .

To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece.

If you have the right to call me a hot dog why do I not have the right to call you a stale 3-day old hamburger?

I think we’re in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

I want to get out there. I want to show myself.

I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.

I’ve tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I’ve represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

I think comedy’s just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.

So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.