So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilitie...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
MILTON FRIEDMAN The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
MILTON FRIEDMAN The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the ma...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Governments never learn. Only people learn.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect th...
MILTON FRIEDMAN A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Und...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devote...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
MILTON FRIEDMAN There was a time when we the U.S. had completely unrestricted immigration, when anybody could come t...
MILTON FRIEDMAN What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
MILTON FRIEDMAN What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a respon...
MILTON FRIEDMAN History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom
MILTON FRIEDMAN The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literatur...
MILTON FRIEDMAN So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
MILTON FRIEDMAN The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It sho...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government...
MILTON FRIEDMAN When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mis...
MILTON FRIEDMAN History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a...
MILTON FRIEDMAN I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselv...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
MILTON FRIEDMAN We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
MILTON FRIEDMAN I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it&...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of govern...
MILTON FRIEDMAN If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shorta...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Inflation is taxation without legislation.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to pr...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the lea...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they...
MILTON FRIEDMAN And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler re...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless bo...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Inflation is taxation without legislation
MILTON FRIEDMAN In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.
MILTON FRIEDMAN A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
MILTON FRIEDMAN There is no free lunch.
MILTON FRIEDMAN There's no such thing as a free lunch.
MILTON FRIEDMAN The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
MILTON FRIEDMAN “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You thi...
MILTON FRIEDMAN One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship
MILTON FRIEDMAN The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literatur...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whate...
MILTON FRIEDMAN There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in acti...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now i...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Most economic fallacies derive - from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one par...
MILTON FRIEDMAN I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's r...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program
MILTON FRIEDMAN Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combina...
MILTON FRIEDMAN If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage o...
MILTON FRIEDMAN I strongly urge the voters of Colorado to reject Referendum C, or any action that would suspend Colo...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students ... not t...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Have all these countries found a genius like Greenspan? ... What the foreign experience suggests is,...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States int...
MILTON FRIEDMAN I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it'...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience
MILTON FRIEDMAN Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of govern...
MILTON FRIEDMAN When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,he is very careful about how much he sp...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is...
MILTON FRIEDMAN So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilitie...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Of course, we'd like to have another one, ... Though wouldn't it be better if we learned that we cou...
MILTON FRIEDMAN One thing you can say about Lew, he is persistent. And he's consistent as well as persistent. He has...
MILTON FRIEDMAN What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN [Minimum Wage. In] Free to Choose, ... . . . the minimum wage law to be one of the most, if not the ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? . . . ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN . . . there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people th...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It sho...
MILTON FRIEDMAN One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their re...
MILTON FRIEDMAN I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
MILTON FRIEDMAN For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desir...
MILTON FRIEDMAN When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,
he is very careful about how much ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
NAT FRIEDMAN Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparentl...
NAT FRIEDMAN We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions ...
NAT FRIEDMAN This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
NAT FRIEDMAN Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, a...
NAT FRIEDMAN Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators...
NAT FRIEDMAN We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the nea...
NAT FRIEDMAN There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Li...
NAT FRIEDMAN It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger ...
NAT FRIEDMAN A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
NAT FRIEDMAN When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.
DAVID FRIEDMAN Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could u...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN They would need that to compare to the sample to make sure it doesn't belong to the victim.
ALAN FRIEDMAN When you have a badly-written law and a bad policy, it creates execution problems and implementation...
ALAN FRIEDMAN [That means even if you can afford one of these gems, you might have to wait.] A one carat pink can ...
ALAN FRIEDMAN These people were laughing at the system, were terrorizing law abiding citizens, were forcing commun...
ALAN FRIEDMAN Agnelli was a man of the old school. He grew up in an environment where politicians and Fiat could i...
ALAN FRIEDMAN Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting...
C.S. FRIEDMAN Just having the industrial zones is a step forward. We would've liked to see more areas included. De...
ADAM FRIEDMAN It was the perfect choice because all the parts are written for kids and teens.
ADAM FRIEDMAN Unlike other programs, our cast is always made up of the students involved in the show. We don?t bri...
ADAM FRIEDMAN I want to make sure the children have as professional an experience as possible. Preparing them for ...
ADAM FRIEDMAN The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by sma...
DAVID FRIEDMAN We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward.” … “Mine is less so, but you will serve it...
C.S. FRIEDMAN Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous.”

If there was an award for understatement, I th...
C.S. FRIEDMAN The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tr...
C.S. FRIEDMAN Life is the messy bits.
LISE FRIEDMAN Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction.
SHELBY FRIEDMAN Nowadays, a penny saved is ridiculous!
SHELBY FRIEDMAN Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
KINKY FRIEDMAN An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
BONNIE FRIEDMAN A slut is someone, usually a woman, who’s stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls ...
JACLYN FRIEDMAN The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.
KINKY FRIEDMAN We definitely are a supporter of lowering corporate income tax and managing through the reprehension...
ADENA FRIEDMAN Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wa...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
KINKY FRIEDMAN When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are st...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Whatever you may be thinking when you apply for a job today, you can be sure the employer is asking ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same g...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whol...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more pl...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabl...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply c...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optim...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online cours...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil co...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative cu...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always e...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out i...
DAVID FRIEDMAN There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achieveme...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'
KINKY FRIEDMAN I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes...
KINKY FRIEDMAN I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible...
KINKY FRIEDMAN Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, b...
KINKY FRIEDMAN I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.
KINKY FRIEDMAN How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?
KINKY FRIEDMAN I don't apologize to people with an agenda.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.
KINKY FRIEDMAN May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me an...
KINKY FRIEDMAN Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
KINKY FRIEDMAN If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this co...
KINKY FRIEDMAN I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never ...
KINKY FRIEDMAN The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.
KINKY FRIEDMAN You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
KINKY FRIEDMAN A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Starting a new job can be nerve-racking , but it's also exciting. You're embarking on a new ...
ADENA FRIEDMAN I don't care what people say about how I look or even their opinion on my relationship. But the mome...
RACHELLE FRIEDMAN We're counting on him to be a productive member of our bullpen.
ANDREW FRIEDMAN We'll continue talks with [them]. This doesn't necessarily shut the door on their future with the Ra...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN We're happy to come to terms with Toby. He's an instrumental part of what we're trying to do as we d...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN We're getting really close to obtaining the support we need.
ANDREW FRIEDMAN He understands what it takes to make a team successful.
ANDREW FRIEDMAN Convoys are the scariest and most high-risk activity a soldier can participate in. You never know wh...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN As plastic surgeons, we use our general surgery training to help treat initial trauma in the field t...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN Don't Try This At Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs
ANDREW FRIEDMAN We were seeing situations when, even after they reported hazardous conditions and violations were is...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN This is a classic change-of-scenery trade involving two former No. 1 draft picks that are still youn...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN Reed: "I owe you big-time, Ronnie."
Ronnie: "You've been my best friend since kindergarten, Ree...
ROBIN FRIEDMAN There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that yo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Glo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
KINKY FRIEDMAN When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. F...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. I...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn'...
KINKY FRIEDMAN We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like...
KINKY FRIEDMAN William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.
KINKY FRIEDMAN No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
KINKY FRIEDMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's friend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middl...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, an...
ADENA FRIEDMAN I didn't see your backbone. I felt like you were sleeping though the lyrical dance.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN