The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it wrong. Sometimes it makes the wrong decision because it fails to anticipate the market (as Japan did when it downplayed laptop computers and stressed mainframes).

Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.

The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

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