I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a loss. Were it not for his politics, he would be virtually forgotten.

The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.

Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but failed to realize that eventually the craziness would take on a life of its own, and that the monster they created would turn on its creators as well as the little people.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.