Quotes of: Adam Keyword

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.

Townsend Harris

Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons.

Thomas Piketty

We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.

Thomas Piketty

Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.

Thomas Piketty

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.

Thomas Piketty

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

Thomas J. Sargent

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.

Thomas J. Sargent

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

Thomas J. Sargent

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Thomas Sowell

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Thomas Sowell

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Thomas Sowell

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Thomas Sowell

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.

John Yoo

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

John Yoo

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.

John Yoo

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

Karen Hughes

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

Karen Hughes

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

Kin Hubbard

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Kin Hubbard

When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man)

Katsura Hoshino

The basic thing with adventure medicine or extreme medicine is that you are going to places where humans don't belong and people will certainly get into trouble.

Kenneth Kamler