Scott Bessent: “We inherited the worst budget deficit in history — in history — when we were not in a recession or not at war.”

I don’t think you can be in a tit-for-tat with someone who’s 13 times larger than you are.

I can’t think of a problem in society that can’t be traced in some way back to the abuses of organized labor.

Every facilitator that keeps the regime afloat is putting a target on its own back.

If you insist on doing business with them—either transferring money, buying oil, doing seaborne ship transport—then the US Treasury and the US government, they will put its full might and force towards enforcing against you.