We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

If the dollar weakens, then presumably all the things that we make in the United States - Buicks, for instance - can be sold cheap all over the world, and everyone will be buying our goods, and we'll get all sorts of yen-denominated, or yuan-denominated, or euro-denominated securities, and then everybody else will be worried.

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise . . . Egalitarianism is sinful; it's also cowardly.

The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.

Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.