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

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

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

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken tolerance to such an extreme that we tolerate the immigration into our country of millions of intolerant people who hate millions of Americans who are already here.

Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.