Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

Monetary policy causes booms and busts.

The money is nice, but I am not in this game for the money.

The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

People of Pakistan want only development, prosperity, and peace.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.