39 Quotes by Kevin Hassett

It will be very important for him to do (that) big public visible speech right after he gets there to let everybody know there's a new sheriff in town, he's got a nice pistol with a lot of ammunition in it, and don't mess with him.

Clearly, the administration's favored approach has one and only one attraction. In one year, the tax rate makes it all the way to zero, and hence political operatives can craft speeches about the end of the double tax of dividends.

The economy's going to be doing well enough that Bush is going to have a big advantage.

Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into their most basic, digestible and familiar bits. Listeners prefer songs they have heard before, after all.

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

Economists have the same occupational hazard as baseball managers and football coaches: Every person on the street knows their job better than they do.

Given the importance of Washington, outsiders probably have an unrealistic perspective on how large the city is. The fact is, Washington D.C. is a small town, and most everyone knows most everyone else. That person of the other party who you despise will someday be at your daughter's birthday party.

Socialized medicine allows a nation to exclude a U.S. product from its market if the U.S. firm does not make generous enough price concessions. Accordingly, what has developed is a system within which U.S. firms make large profits on new drugs in the U.S. market, but very low profits on sales everywhere else.

If you look at the geographic variation in long-term unemployment, it's really striking. There are pockets where employers don't want to go, but for some reason, in part because of adequate safety nets, people don't want to leave.