If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.

Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now.

I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.

Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.

If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.