All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

The poor are the very lifeblood of the left, attracting activists, supporting among the intelligentsia, and - perhaps most important - allowing the left to indulge in self-congratulation as people who 'care.' But, if they really cared, they would want to know what the facts are and what the actual consequences of their various nostrums are.

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s.