[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.

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

[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.

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

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

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.