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"As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend your taxes, it always seems to go to some guy in a leather chair downtown you never heard of."
"Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons."
"[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less likely to find a spirit of generosity among the advocates of governmentally-required "compassion"."
"[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out."
"The purpose of the right to bear arms is twofold; to allow individuals to protect themselves and their families, and to ensure a body of armed citizenry from which a militia could be drawn, whether that militia's role was to protect the nation, or to protect the people from a tyrannical government."
"What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent."
"The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them."
"It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents."
"You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature."
"With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory."
"When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government."
"One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low."
"A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions."
"As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed."
"As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible."
"[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority."
"If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward."
"Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country."
"Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere."
"Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays."