friedman Quotes

“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”

“Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.”

“No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.”

“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.”

“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.”

“Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.”

“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.”

“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”

“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”

“The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.”