Quotes from Ben Stein

I am scared of running out of money.

Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.

I tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.