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• The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.
• All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?
• I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
• Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.
• Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.
• If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally…
• Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you…
• It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.
• In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
• It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.
• The idea that we should be open to all ideas, is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.
• We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major…

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