Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The United Nations remains the sole universal international organisation designed to maintain global peace. And in this sense it has no alternative… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start… — Rachael Yamagata Copy Share Image
Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The drug trade is responsible for much of that. — Renee Montagne Copy Share Image
The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
I learned to play guitar on my lying back while I was bed-ridden. I only thought to record the songs because sometimes… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself. — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the issue here is, you get rid of all the conservative orthodoxy about capital gains, marginal tax rate, supply side economics,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent -… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
