Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.

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.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.