Glenn Reynolds Quotes

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• As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend your taxes, it…
• What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at…
• Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.
• When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.
• [T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.
• The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and…
• The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the…
• But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other…
• The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.
• Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.
• Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.
• Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.
• Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.
• I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would…
• Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.
• I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.
• Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.
• As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.
• With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to…
• Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

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