These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

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

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.