The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.
All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.
I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.
In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands.
It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.
I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
Good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system.
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
Our current tax system is broken.
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
In 1987 Senator Jesse Helms, stated "it is no secret that the international bankers profiteer form sovereign state debt. The New York banks have found important profit centers in lending to countries plunged into debt by Socialist regimes. Under Soci...
On Earth one of the things that a large proportion of the locals is most proud of is this wonderful economic system which, with a sureness and certainty so comprehensive one could almost imagine the process bears some relation to their limited and li...
There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they...
None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists who are difficult writers even though some of the best have been very good writers. He shoul...
I shot the first planet this afternoon.
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.
I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
