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" What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. "

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" Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising. "

" People love to be told what they know already. "

" Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money. "

" After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. "

" A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall. "

" Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself. "

" The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee. "

" I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped. "

" You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. "

" A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person. "

" Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree. "

" America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. "

" Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices. "

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" If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters. "

" Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics. "

" We did not become libertarians because we are altruists. "

" Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference. "

" Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens. "

" The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does. "

" When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side. "

" Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up. "

" America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation. "

" Democrats hate success. "

" There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. "

" I am unboreable in the great outdoors. "

" The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior. "

" I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one. "

" I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.' "

" Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade. "

" The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it. "