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" You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. "

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" There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds? "

" Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. "

" If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say. "

" The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. "

" Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. "

" It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. "

" Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. "

" A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. "

" Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. "

" All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. "

" There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. "

" Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses. "

" The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. "

" Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. "

" The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction. "

" It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.' "

" Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. "

" Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. "

" President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again. "

" Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. "

" The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. "

" In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. "

" Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention. "

" The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. "

" The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. "

" Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right? "

" Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency. "

" In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people. "

" Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. "

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