Politics Quote by Jane Mayer

“George Mason’s economics department, meanwhile, became a hotbed of controversial theories that began to transform Americans’ tax bills, serving as an incubator for the…

— Jane Mayer

[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed, were applicable…

— Gordon S. Wood

“I had to recommend only two books that every sincere, concerned American, Liberal or Conservative, should read, they would be A Republic, Not and…

— Joseph Befumo

“In 1986, Buchanan was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics. Liberal economists were aghast. Robert Lekachman, for instance, lambasted Buchanan for reducing “all human…

— Jane Mayer

“Long habit had accustomed the American people to the notion of a party in power, and of a President as its creature and organ,…

— James Russell Lowell

“[James M. Buchanan] directed hostility toward college students, public employees, recipients of any kind of government assistance, and liberal intellectuals. His intellectual lineage went…

— Nancy MacLean

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams.…

— Ezra Cornell

Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes brought in…

— Amity Shlaes

“As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were…

— James Truslow Adams

Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just…

— Allan H. Meltzer

“Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, explains that private…

— Jane Mayer

“Presidents could be fickle and arbitrary. Each new one with wildly different visions and priorities. And when all was said and done, they were…

— Douglas E. Richards