“President Trump's first-term tariffs did not raise the prices of the a...” — Scott Bessent Quote

“President Trump's first-term tariffs did not raise the prices of the affected goods, despite predictions back then that the tariffs would prove inflationary. Indeed, not only was there no discernible rise in inflation during the last round of tariffs, but the Fed's preferred measure of inflation actually declined.”

“I mean, think about the coalition that Donald Trump assembled. This was the greatest political comeback in history, greatest political comeback in history. And it was a combination of working class Americans and Elon Musk, the richest person in the world. Who else could do that but Donald Trump?”

“When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.”

“'Hamlet' was the first movie I saw. In 1948, my mother said, 'I'm going to take you to see 'Hamlet' with Laurence Olivier.' She was worried about taking me to it because she wasn't sure I was old enough to understand it or to maybe be adversely affected by it, but I got recordings of it and memorized all the soliloquies.”