People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying this, and there is no perfect balance, and how would you know what the perfect balance is? I mean, what does it mean to have too many Beethoven chairs and too few Stravinsky chairs? I mean, that's kind of a value judgment that isn't really based on humility. We don't know what the optimum number is, so let people figure this out on their own. People are more interested in Beethoven than Stravinsky? Great! Why would that bother me?

If people don't learn to work by the time they're in their 30s, they're never very productive.

I've always believed in the saying that "there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.

Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.