I wouldn't be betting the farm on that one.

This is like putting lipstick on a pig. Anyway you dress it, it is bad policy.

The cultivation numbers, wherever they seem to be headed, need to be taken with a grain of salt. In reality, coca cultivation and cocaine production exceed the official estimates, perhaps by wide margins.

New Zealand in 1984 did away with all farm subsidies. One of the reasons for going on this trip was to see how New Zealand got along after they took away all farm subsidies, and get an understanding of what happened in the process.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

It's the rationale of not putting all of your eggs in one basket, for not betting that (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan can save the economy.