The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.

We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

The euro is going to be a big source of problems, not a source of help.

I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that has not also used something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity.

Statistics do not speak for themselves.