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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

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I'm a plain soap kind of guy.

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I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.

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If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

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We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

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I don't think it's possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner. Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets, so there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different. I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.

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The free lunch has still to be invented.

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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

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I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.

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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

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...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

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I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.

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Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

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