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- So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them…
- In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.
- Experience trumps brilliance.
- Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in…
- The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians…
- Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all…
- There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you…
- What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting…
- Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.
- There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.
- In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.
- In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an…
- It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter,…
- Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that…
- Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the…
- Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our…
- It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the…
- Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are…
- Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.
- 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.
- The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation...
- A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great career for those…
- You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.
- Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the…
- In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the…
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle