"If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them."

-- James Surowiecki

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“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.”
“Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.”
“I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.”
“Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.”
“Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.”
“When you fully commit, you will make it.”
“The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.”
“You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome. But when you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist people who are suffering, then suddenly we come very, you know, cost-conscious.”

Source : Conversation with Bill Moyers, June 20, 2014.

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