Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.

If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.