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Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.

- Martin Feldstein

The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.

- John Poindexter

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

- Martin Feldstein

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

- Malcolm Wallop

Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.

- Frank Carlucci

The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

- Malcolm Wallop

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

- Malcolm Wallop

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

- Martin Feldstein

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

- Malcolm Wallop

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

- Martin Feldstein

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

- Richard V. Allen

Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

- Martin Feldstein

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

- Malcolm Wallop

'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

- Richard V. Allen

Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.

- Frank Carlucci

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

- John Poindexter

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

- Malcolm Wallop