"Almost any government activity can also be seen……" — Michael Kinsley
"Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property without just compensation. The basic model of an unconstitutional aking would be if the government threw you out of your house."
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Michael Kinsley
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24 Quotes by Michael Kinsley
Michael Kinsley has 24 quotes on this site.
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Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or…
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Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the…
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The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
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In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger,…
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The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for…
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Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.
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If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the…
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I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.
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The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges…
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He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make…
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In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward…
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It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair…
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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