Member Quotes

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

The thing is, I don’t do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.

Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.

Any country that makes U.S. service members get on their knees will feel the full force and fury of the United States of America.