The best Quotes by Milton Friedman

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

When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.

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.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

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No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

Sex New York City

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

Grüner Kobold in Spider-Man

Fame New York City

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3

New York City Manhatten

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 5

New York City

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Bill de Blasio

New York City

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Jordan Klepper in The Daily Show - Debates Anti-Vax Mandate Protesters in NYC

New York City

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

Ronny Chieng in The Daily Show

New York City

I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!

Michael Lawson in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1

New York City

I remember Hell's Kitchen when you couldn't walk west of Ninth Avenue without getting knifed. Now it's Chelsea with better gays.

Stanley James in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1

New York City

Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.

Colleen Hoover in Verity

New York City

It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

Margot Robbie

New York City

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Jay Leno

Crime New York City

I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city.

Kit Harington

New York City

Being a single girl in New York... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

Emilia Clarke

New York City

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

David Letterman

New York City

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

San Francisco

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Anthony Bourdain

San Francisco

Congratulations, San Francisco, you've ruined pizza. First the Hawaiians, and now you.

Wut in Inside Out

San Francisco Pizza Hawaii

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Herb Caen

San Francisco

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

V in V for Vendetta

Democracy Governments

Thor: "Do you see yourself above them?"
Loki: "Oh yes."
Thor: "Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother."

Thor in The Avengers

Governments

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Anthony Burgess in The Wanting Seed

Governments

You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.

William Wallace in Braveheart

Power Governments

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean Paul Getty

Life Birthday Age Sand

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.

Joel Barish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Sand Stones & Rocks

I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Sand

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

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