Victor Davis Hanson Quotes

If you look at the economy, the U.S. economy, in terms of per-capita terms, in terms of other considerations, has been on the descent, ever since the beginning of the war in Indo-China. And it started really as a result of John F. Kennedy being assassinated.

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

I've been able to stretch myself, covering policy, looking at tax reform, looking at the broader economy [being at Fox]. It's no longer [just] about the stock market. I'm having a ball. And, the glamor of TV also makes it fun.

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.

Government has a perfect right, indeed a duty, to intervene in the economy in the name of justice, ecology, strategic interests, full employment, or other public goods in which the market has and can have no interest.

There isn’t that much that Washington can do to effect the economy.

It’s very difficult to find out what’s going on in the economy even when its happening.

[Discussing economic trends:] You can find a study that says anything.

The American economy is like a huge aircraft carrier. It doen't turn fast. That's why you can't judge a new president by what happens in his early months.

Whether a president can truly improve, or damage, an economy remains an open question.

President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

We're not very good at forecasting, and we don't know how to measure the impact of economic policy.

The economy is most important. It is off track.

Today President Obama gave a major speech where he defended his handling of the economy. And there were tons of people in the audience, you know, since nobody had to be at work.

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed, you can be sure that, like Eskimos, when they turn over, they'll all turn over together.

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.

If we had 3 percent growth, which is what we're trying to get to, what we're at, by the way, right now, we're trying to maintain that 3 percent growth. If we had been at 3 percent growth over the last ten years, the budget very nearly would be balanced in 2017. That's how big a difference it makes when you grow the American economy that additional 1 percent over ten years.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Hillary Clinton has promised to build on President [Barack] Obama's policies. That means build on Obamacare, build on Dodd-Frank, build on the regulations coming out of the EPA. If that's the case, that will not be good for the economy.

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.