How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are to be institutionally rewarded or penalized... The need to reduce the indicators to a manageable few is based not only on the need to conserve the time (and sanity) of those who assign rewards and penalties, but also to provide those subject to these incentives with some objective indication of what their performance is expected to be and how it will be judged... key indicators can never tell the whole story.

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.

Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or nice. But if any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the passing years and generations.

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'