Quotes
Authors
Steven Levitt

"In the United States especially, politics and economics donâ€™t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives."

Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2010). “SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance”, p.44, Harper Collins

Steven Levitt

#Real Quotes #Law Quotes #People Quotes

“Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.”
“Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.”
“I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.”
“Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this moment--when we worked to reclaim our country--and our children will ask us how we contributed to this mighty undertaking. Our story should be one of patriotic people who beat back the onslaught of radicalism with courage and commitment.”
“A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't take criticism lying down.”
“Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.”
“Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.”

"In the United States especially, politics and economics donâ€™t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives."

You may also like: