36 Quotes by David Orr

These numbers are as close to perfect as you can get from a Fed point of view.

The Fed did not lower the fed funds rate, but their statement indicates a 180 degree about-face in terms of their view of the risks facing the economy, ... It looks to me they're ready to do what they have to do when they have to do it. They just aren't exactly sure when they have to do it.

The fear is that landslides will further hamper our operations,

Initially, we estimated the number of people in need was about one million and we had reached about 50 percent of them. We've had a food security team in the field and they've revised the estimate up quite dramatically.

Importantly, on a year-over-year basis, the core CPI continued to inch higher,

In our view, current financial market psychology is under-estimating the negative impact that rising joblessness will have on the housing and motor vehicle markets in the first half of 2002,

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, people were getting 10 percent pay raises. But housing prices were going up 12 to 15 percent, and so were cars.

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

There is a story that some years ago an interested mother wrote to a principal of a school, ‘Don’t teach my boy poetry, he’s going to run for Congress.’ I’ve never taken the view that the world of politics and the world of poetry are so far apart.” They are united, Kennedy suggests, because their greatness depends on “courage” – it is what makes, as Frost might put it, “all the difference.