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What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much. ”
The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role to play in guiding a market economy. I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his extremism led to the defeat of his own ideas. ”
Actually, in my advanced, high-falutin' frontier economics, I often work with what I define as 'money metric utility,' and I ask people, 'Do you really want that? What are you willing to pay for that?' ”
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support. ”
Some candidates can sit in an office for 10 hours a day asking for money. That's just not who I am. ”
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society. ”
The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.' ”
Some of our best and biggest allies in this struggle and fight against radical Islamic terror are Muslims, the vast, vast, vast majority of whom are people who believe in pluralism, freedom, democracy, individual rights. ”
Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country. ”
What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ”