My single biggest financial concern is the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency. I can't imagine anything more disastrous to our country. . . you're already seeing things in the markets that are suggesting that confidence in the dollar is waning. . . I think you could see a 25% reduction in the standard of living in this country if the U. S. dollar was no longer the world's reserve currency. That's how valuable it is.
I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. . . . This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. . . . If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars.
Suggesting evil is human doesn’t mean we can always understand it.
Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is to create a permanent underclass.