Milton Friedman

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

I think the Fed is not designed to have effective tools to deal with the economy. It should settle for just controlling the money supply. And - if it insists, it can worry about inflation.