Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.

The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?