I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less. [I]f the overriding objective is price stability, we did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking. ' The truly unique power of a central bank, after all, is the power to create money, and ultimately the power to create is the power to destroy.
The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM.
The standard of living of the average American has to decline.
I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.
When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.
No-one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put into his speech. The expert worries about what he should take out. An artisitic performance is concentrated, has a central focus.
I hate Sunday, and I don't think I'll ever get over it. But I'm going to try.
I think I was almost 12, so I knew who George C. Scott was, but if I could work with George C. Scott now, I'd be so pumped.
I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.