Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.