Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Quote by Paul A Samuelson

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Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by...

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by...

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the...

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the...

Funeral by funeral, theory advances

Funeral by funeral, theory advances

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a...

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a...

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States,...

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States,...

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their...

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their...

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as...

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as...

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains...

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains...

Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has...

Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has...

Criticism is easy, art is difficult

Criticism is easy, art is difficult

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in...

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in...

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his...

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his...

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what...

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what...

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should...

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should...

I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your...

I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your...

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited...

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited...