Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Friedman quotes


“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program”

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand”

“Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.”

“The power to do good is also the power to do harm.”

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”