NATO was formed post-World War II. We're a little bit more than a half-century old. Do we want NATO to go on for another half-century? I think that the answer is, sitting here today: I don't know. If I had to bet on it, I would say, yeah, we have to have these alliances going forward and see who's going to pay for them.
If you go back to Adam Smith, you find the idea that markets and market forces operate as an invisible hand. This is the traditional laissez-faire market idea. But today, when economics is increasingly defined as the science of incentive, it becomes clear that the use of incentives involves quite active intervention, either by an economist or a policy maker, in using financial inducements to motivate behavior. In fact, so much though that we now almost take for granted that incentives are central to the subject of economics.
If you want to be anxious today, pretend you're in control.
I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.
Honestly, I'm not listening to much of what's going on today.
The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.
Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.
It's an unbelievably tight race for hideous today.
I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.
I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.
[Constant curiousity leads to happiness:] I wake up curious every day and every day I'm surprised by something. And if I can just recognize that surprise every day and say, 'Oh, that's a new thing, that's a new gift that I got today that I didn't even know about yesterday,' it keeps me going. It keeps me more than going. It keeps me enthusiastic and grateful!
Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.
What single brave decision will I make today?
So the political choice today is much like the 1930s, when the global economy also broke down. The choice is between nationalism and populism on the right, or socialism reviving what used to be left-wing politics.
If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.
Everyone from Adam Smith, John Stewart Mill, they were all reforms. What they wanted to reform was getting rid of this parasitic landlord class that had conquered England in 1066 and it's the heirs of the military warlords who ended up taking the land and making everybody pay them and all of their descendants just for having been conquered. You can see the carry-over of this today. The rent that people have to pay, the money they have to pay the banks instead of having a public option. That's the price they still have to pay for being conquered.
Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.
A lot of people would enter restricted sites just to say they can, and then log out. Today, everything related to hacking seems to be for monetary gain.
Maybe a better way to put it on this Halloween Day is to say, 'It's not a trick or much of a treat, but it's all you get if you come knocking on the Commission's door today.
In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.
Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.
I would agree if the race were today, most likely, our nominee would be Donald Trump, but it isn`t today.
Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.
It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die.
Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic.
