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Reconstruction is going to add jobs and growth to the economy.
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The world has a great deal more to offer than money.
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The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.
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Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
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Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.
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To say that the U.S. economy benefits from trade is not to say that every individual American worker or family benefits, or that the structural changes induced by trade are not disruptive.
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I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.
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I see inflation as remaining well-contained going forward.
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Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either.
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There's going to be a big impact there for a number of weeks. It's big enough to show up in the national statistics.
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Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.