Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.