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This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and…
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Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny…
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Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say…
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Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.
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Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that…
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Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism…
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Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for…
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These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting…
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What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell…
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During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period…
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In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for…
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There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from…
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Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the…
— Ayn Rand
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Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and…
— Howard Zinn
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There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to…
— Milton Friedman
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We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government…
— Calvin Coolidge
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This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal…
— Kathleen Turner
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There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.
— Henry Paulson
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We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points.…
— Dan Gillmor
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In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who…
— Denise Caruso
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When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government…
— Thomas Sowell
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I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15…
— John Stossel
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If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention.…
— Milton Friedman
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Its often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
— Patrick McHenry
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