There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.
The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.
We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.
The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.
Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.
When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.
People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.
Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.
More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel.
