Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.
Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable,. . . . . . It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.
We have our own system,. . . and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.
The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.
I am bigger than the box I'm in.
I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
The Fed cannot reduce inequality on its own; far from it. This requires a concerted effort by the government, broadly speaking, to support a variety of efforts. These include things like raising the federal minimum wage, eliminating unfair restrictions on union organizing, increased fiscal spending on needed infrastructure with a condition that these jobs will be decent paying jobs. Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and far from the question of the role of the Federal Reserve.