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- Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"
- The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You…
- Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
- Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or…
- Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in…
- You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.
- If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of…
- The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common…
- It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence…
- The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act…
- Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting…
- Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.
- Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.
- Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from…
- Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
- You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them,…
- Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is going to be…
- Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just…
- Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and…
- You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all…
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