Commodity Quote by Milton Friedman

“The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase…

— Geoffrey Wood

Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence.…

— Jean Baudrillard

[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies…

— Michael Parenti

The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

— Ron Paul

Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society.…

— Paul Samuelson

Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.

— Tom Ridge

He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for…

— Steve Wozniak

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

— Daniel Yergin

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

— George Eastman

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how…

— Walead Beshty

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy,…

— Audre Lorde

What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.

— George Soros

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today…

— Robert C. Solomon

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it…

— John Kasich