The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

People who think that they are being 'exploited' should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: 'Good riddance?'

Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the first place, by making home-ownership statistics the holy grail, for which everything else was to be sacrificed, including commonsense standards for making home loans.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.