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And from this story I learned about the geopolitics of taking out one's salami. — George Friedman

A vision without resources is an hallucination. — Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything. — Thomas Friedman

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979 — Kinky Friedman

We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward." ... "Mine is less so, but you will serve it. Come. — C.S. Friedman

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. — Thomas Friedman

Inflation is taxation without legislation — Milton Friedman

I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce. — Thomas Friedman

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre. — Milton Friedman

How much blood was being made to flow for that last show of elegance? — C.S. Friedman

I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics. — Milton Friedman

The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's," adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade. — Josh Alan Friedman

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them. — Thomas Friedman

I have a better head of hair than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you. — Kinky Friedman

Who you are when you are tested might not be pretty, but it's always real. — Rachel Friedman

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent. — 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

Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest. — Milton Friedman

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year. — David 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

Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other. — Kinky Friedman

My identity is without root. — C.S. Friedman

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty. — Kinky Friedman

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite. — 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 wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company. — David Friedman

The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. — Milton Friedman

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. — Thomas Friedman

What if in the afterlife you did not meet God? Could you still believe in God? — Ross Friedman

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances. — David Friedman

A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them. — C.S. Friedman

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions. — Milton Friedman

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition. — Milton Friedman

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. — David Friedman

Feminism is what I do with my life, it's how I spend my days, it's my job, it's not just an opinion I have among many other opinions. — Jaclyn Friedman

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger. — Thomas Friedman

The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life. — Kinky Friedman

I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant). — C.S. Friedman

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. — Milton Friedman

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister. — Kinky Friedman

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe. — David Friedman

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am. — Thomas Friedman

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship. — Milton Friedman

Let me tell you the tale of a poet who hanged himself with promises ... — C.S. Friedman

(Mr. Friedman) was always kind of dopey."
"Actually, Bob is very smart. Too smart to be a teacher. It's why he doesn't connect with the stuxents. — Jessica Knoll

Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive. — Kinky Friedman

Anger of any kind is a dangerous emotion, it eats at the nerves and eventually makes you careless — C.S. Friedman

You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him. — Arthur Laffer

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it. — Nat Friedman

We are in love, in the very beginning part of it, when you don't ever want to separate your body from the other person's. — Rachel Friedman

Government spends somebody else's money on somebody else. — Milton Friedman

On any given day, according to UPS, 2 percent of the world's GDP can be found in UPS delivery trucks or package cars. — Thomas L. Friedman

There's no such thing as a free lunch. — Milton Friedman

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters. — Kinky Friedman

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. — Milton Friedman

It's as difficult to describe the sea as it is a piece of music. — Rachel Friedman

Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best. — C.S. Friedman

It is good, as I have said, to be neither victim nor victimizer. Unfortunately, it is not possible. What — George Friedman

Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get. — Kinky Friedman

Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today. — C.S. Friedman

There's this magical sense of possibility that stretches like a bridge between June and August. A sense that anything can happen. — Aimee Friedman

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another. — Kinky Friedman

Milton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman

I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans. — Kinky Friedman

Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state. — Patri Friedman

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. — Milton 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 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

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

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. — 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

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent. — Thomas Friedman

[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation. — Milton Friedman

Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street — Kinky Friedman

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill. — Thomas Friedman

Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous.
If there was an award for understatement, I thought, the Tyr would trounce all competition. — C.S. Friedman

I'm ready for anything. That's probably why it never happens. — Kinky Friedman

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's — Thomas L. Friedman

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature. — Milton Friedman

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program. — Milton Friedman

("I homogenize saw you on the street last night"), — Bruce Jay Friedman

Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics. — Milton Friedman

A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money. — Ben Bernanke

The saying in China is If you're one in a million, there's still 1,300 people just like you. — Thomas L. Friedman

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed. — Thomas Friedman

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater. — Milton Friedman

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist. — Milton 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

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

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

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good. — Kinky Friedman