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Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.
— Thomas Friedman
A vision without resources is an hallucination.
— Thomas Friedman
'Deserves' is an impossible thing to decide. No one deserves anything. Thank God we don't get what we deserve.
— Milton Friedman
Inflation is taxation without legislation
— Milton Friedman
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
— Milton Friedman
Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.
— Milton Friedman
How do you hold down government spending?
— Milton Friedman
Unfortunately, unanimity is not always feasible.
— Milton Friedman
I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics.
— Milton Friedman
The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'
— Kinky Friedman
In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.
— Thomas Friedman
Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign.
— Kinky Friedman
You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.
— Milton Friedman
How hard can it be?
— Kinky Friedman
I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory.
— Kinky Friedman
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
— Milton Friedman
The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important ... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.
— Kinky Friedman
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
— Kinky Friedman
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
— Milton Friedman
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
— Milton Friedman
If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.
— Kinky Friedman
Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis ...
— Aimee Friedman
It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.
— David Friedman
Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
— Kinky Friedman
It's all very well going around thinking you're a cowboy, until you run into somebody who thinks he's an Indian.
— Kinky Friedman
I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.
— Thomas Friedman
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
— Milton Friedman
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.
— Edwin H. Friedman
He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries.
— Kinky Friedman
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.
— George Stigler
John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.
— Thomas Friedman
My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
— David Friedman
No policy is sustainable without a public that broadly understands why it's necessary and sees the world the way you do ...
— Thomas L. Friedman
I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.
— Thomas Friedman
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
— Milton Friedman
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
— Jerome Isaac Friedman
We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.
— Kinky Friedman
We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
— Nat Friedman
We have grown addicted to our high salaries, and now we are really going to have to earn them, the CEO said.
— Thomas L. Friedman
I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space.
— Kinky Friedman
I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.
— David Friedman
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
— Milton Friedman
Maintaining the balance of power should be as fundamental to American foreign policy as the Bill of Rights is to domestic policy.
— George Friedman
The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.
— Milton Friedman
When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.
— Thomas Friedman
I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.
— David Friedman
Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.
— Thomas Friedman
If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.
— Milton Friedman
Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History.
— Harlan Coben
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
— Kinky Friedman
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
— Milton Friedman
When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.
— Thomas Friedman
Children are responsible individuals in embryo. They have ultimate rights of their own and are not simply the playthings of their parents.
— Milton Friedman
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
— David M. Friedman
Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.
— Thomas L. Friedman
There is no law of conservation which forces the growth of new centers of economic strength to be at the expense of existing centers.
— Milton Friedman
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
— Milton Friedman
She is confident and nonchalant in equal proportion to my paralyzing self-consciousness.
— Rachel Friedman
One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.
— Milton Friedman
The case for prohibiting drugs is exactly as strong and as weak as the case for prohibiting people from overeating.
— Milton Friedman
Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.
— Thomas Friedman
Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.
— Patri Friedman
[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.
— Milton Friedman
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
— Milton Friedman
("I homogenize saw you on the street last night"),
— Bruce Jay Friedman
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
— David Friedman
The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power.
— Milton Friedman
Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get.
— Kinky Friedman
It is good, as I have said, to be neither victim nor victimizer. Unfortunately, it is not possible. What
— George Friedman
The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
— Milton Friedman
Always beware of people offering you one-time money. That only works in an election year. How are you going to permanently pay for education?
— Kinky Friedman
You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.
— Thomas Friedman
It's exciting to fit somewhere when I have felt out of place everywhere for so long.
— Rachel Friedman
In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.
— Milton Friedman
The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.
— Milton Friedman
An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.
— Kinky Friedman
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
— Milton Friedman
There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician.
— Kinky Friedman
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.
— Thomas Friedman
Milton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Come find me," Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. "Whenever you want. I'll be here.
— Aimee Friedman
There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
— Thomas Friedman
Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.
— Milton Friedman
Go cons a piece of cake onto your mouth.
— Daniel P. Friedman
I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.
— Thomas Friedman
I've found it freeing these last few months to let go of some insecurities, large and small, or at least to put them on hold. One
— Rachel Friedman
I believe that voices like Ross Perot (search), Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader should be heard. They don't have to be president. Give 'em a chance.
— Kinky Friedman
In other words, he explained, unless we bear witness to God's presence by our own good deeds, He is not present.
— Thomas L. Friedman
What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.
— Milton Friedman