People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.
What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
The biggest food-related risk in pregnancy is listeria. It's a dangerous bacteria, to which pregnant women are especially susceptible, that can lead to miscarriage or stillbirth.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.
I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.
She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.
