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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
If there were an Economist’s Creed, it would surely contain the affirmations ‘I understand the Principle of Comparative Advantage’ and ‘I advocate Free Trade’
PKPaul Krugmanborn 1953“Is Free Trade Passé?”, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Autumn, 1987)
- Economics
When the economy is in a depression, scarcity ceases to rule. Productive resources sit idle, so that it is possible to have more of some things without having less of others; free lunches are all around.
PKPaul Krugmanborn 1953“Depressions are Different”, in Robert M. Solow, ed. Economics for the Curious: Inside the Minds of 12 Nobel Laureates. 2014.
- Economics
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm1935–2021
- Christmas
- Economics
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018National Book Awards, November 2014
- Economics
- Power
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Tom Lehrer1928–2025On the awarding of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger, and Lê Ðức Thọ
- Humor
Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
Vladimir Lenin1870–1924“Meeting Of The All-Russia Central Executive Committee” (4 November 1917); Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 285-293.
All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies.
Doris Lessing1919–2013Salon interview (1997)
- Enemies
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line.
Doris Lessing1919–2013The Sunday Times (London, 10 May 1992)
The thing we all have to understand to put these last two years in focus, is that liberals in this country care more about whether European leaders like us than they do about whether terrorists are killing us.
Rush Limbaugh1951–2021
- America
We’ll never know where John Kerry stands on an issue because he’ll take both sides — all three sides, four sides, however many sides there are — of an issue.
Rush Limbaugh1951–2021
You say you are conservative — eminently conservative — while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The Cooper Union Address (1860)
- Change
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Reply to the New York Workingmen’s Democratic Republican Association (21 March 1864); Collected Works, Vol. 7, pp. 259-260
- Economics
- Work
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
David Lloyd George1863–1945Speech in Wolverhampton (23 November 1918), quoted in The Times (25 November 1918), p. 13
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?
David Lloyd George1863–1945Speech in Newcastle (9 October 1909), quoted in The Times (11 October 1909), p. 6
- Justice