You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.