"Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard."― Edgar R. Fiedler Topic(s): BusinessMore From Edgar R. Fiedler"He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.""If you have to forecast, forecast often.""The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers."More In Business"Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that’s at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we’ve got to stop that."― Mitt Romney"I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap."― Margaret Spellings"Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think ‘we’re all in this together’ is a better philosophy than ‘you’re on your own.’"― William J. Clinton