Academic Quote by William E. Simon

So many of the great thought leaders that have shaped economics - Gary Becker, Milton Friedman - what an unbelievable success story they've had…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose…

— Nigel Lawson

“Along with libertarians such as Milton Friedman, an especially influential economist, they pointed with alarm at the dramatic increase in the number of government…

— James T. Patterson

“But it would be a mistake to assume that the liberal class was simply seduced by the Utopian promises of globalism. It was also…

— Chris Hedges

By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.'…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of…

— Molly Ivins

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

— George Stigler

“America was a “civil oligarchy” in which a tiny and extremely wealthy slice of the population was able to use its vastly superior economic…

— Jane Mayer

I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton] Friedmans insight…

— Arnold Kling

“Liberal critics, like the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize–winning economist, worried that the country was in danger of being transformed…

— Jane Mayer

“Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Obama’s teacher at Harvard Law School and friend since then, has sought to hide his association with Obama. “I am a…

— Dinesh D'Souza