“Good questions outrank easy answers.” — Paul Samuelson Quote

Good questions outrank easy answers.

The contrafactual history is what it would have been the other way. Think of the Kennedy triumph in the missiles crisis. Worked out fine. Khrushchev blinked and so forth. The other road, you don't want to think too hard about. You could have had nuclear missiles wiping out a tenth of the globe.

I'm not speaking in favor of killing innovation. I'm speaking in favor of centrist use of the market, which involves necessarily a considerable degree of regulation. Markets by themselves will get themselves inevitably into inequality and into their own destruction. It will happen again and again.

Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.