Quotes of the day

It's ironic that the left decries the income disparity between men and women, but in the instance when women earn equal pay it is used to inflame class warfare.--Steve Walde

There are no [economic] solutions. There are only trade-offs.--Thomas Sowell

Facts, like jade, are not only costly to obtain but also difficult to authenticate.--Steven Cheung

Much of [the stimulus legislation] doesn't have any short-term stimulus. If you raise research and development, I don't see how it's going to short-run stimulate the economy. You don't have excess unemployed labor in the scientific community, in the research community, or in the wind power creation community, or in the health sector. So I don't see that this will stimulate the economy, but it will raise the debt and lead to inefficient spending and a lot of problems.--Gary Becker

Are you punch-drunk?--Steve Kroft, to President Obama

I have never before doubted the resilience of the American economy – its ability to survive inevitable downturns after periods of excess, and to weather the burdens heaped on it by politicians. Obama, however, has me shaken, perhaps because I am not stirred by his rhetoric. --Irwin Seltzer

One must remember that Barack Obama is not referring to the benefits of any change that he’s made in Iraq policy — because he hasn’t made any. He is saying that the Iraq War and the future U.S. commitment there, as outlined by the Bush and Maliki governments, have left him with the smoothest, most promising issue on his daily agenda. It turns out that with the heat of campaigning lifted, the Iraq War is finally acknowledged as what it is: a success.--Abe Greenwald

The funny thing is, in your twenties you try and look serious, and after your twenties, you just try and look hot.--Meredith Whitney