Posted on 02/10/2018 5:48:00 AM PST by Kaslin
1) “There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.” – Thomas Sowell
2) “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.” – Charles Krauthammer
3) “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” — Aristotle
4) “That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”— Thomas Jefferson
5) “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” -- Eric Hoffer
6) “Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far.” — Teddy Roosevelt
7) “We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.” – Ronald Reagan
8) “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” — Robert Heinlein
9) “And many writers have imagined for themselves republics and principalities that have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for there is such a gap between how one lives and how one ought to live that anyone who abandons what is done for what ought to be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation: for a man who wishes to profess goodness at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good.” — Niccolo Machiavelli
10) “A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.” — Samuel Adams
11) “With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.” — Rand Paul
12) “How many times have we heard ‘free tuition,’ ‘free health care,’ and free you-name-it? If a particular good or service is truly free, we can have as much of it as we want without the sacrifice of other goods or services. Take a ‘free’ library; is it really free? The answer is no. Had the library not been built, that $50 million could have purchased something else. That something else sacrificed is the cost of the library. While users of the library might pay a zero price, zero price and free are not one and the same. So when politicians talk about providing something free, ask them to identify the beneficent Santa Claus or tooth fairy.” — Walter Williams
13) “Compromise is very difficult in a political environment in which a deal is not a deal. Whether the question is trading robust immigration enforcement for an amnesty benefiting those illegals already present in the country or trading tax increases for spending cuts according to some agreed-upon ratio, the main obstacle is not ideology or partisan self-interest, but the belief – a well-justified belief – that cutting a long-term deal is pointless, because such deals will not stand. “— Kevin Williamson
14) "Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. Usually the strength of a mass movement is proportionate to the vividness and tangibility of its devil.....Common hatred unites the most heterogeneous elements. To share a common hatred, with an enemy even, is to infect him with a feeling of kinship, and thus sap his powers of resistance.....Again, like an idea deity, the ideal devil is omnipotent and omnipresent." – Eric Hoffer
15) “The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins — that is, until the late evening newscast, when suddenly we are plunged into the world as it is. Political realists see the world as it is: an arena of power politics moved primarily by perceived immediate self-interests, where morality is rhetorical rationale for expedient action and self-interest. Two examples would be the priest who wants to be a bishop and bootlicks and politicks his way up, justifying it with the rationale, ‘After I get to be bishop I’ll use my office for Christian reformation,’ or the businessman who reasons, ‘First I’ll make my million and after that I’ll go for the real things in life,’ Unfortunately one changes in many ways on the road to the bishopric or the first million, and then one says, ‘I’ll wait until I’m a cardinal and then I can be more effective,’ or ‘I can do a lot more after I get two million’ — and so it goes. In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of ‘the common good’ and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.” – Saul Alinsky
16) “America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to ‘the common good,’ but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America’s industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance–and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.” – Ayn Rand
17) “Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.” — Thomas Jefferson
18) “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” -- Attributed to Harry Truman
19) “I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” — James Madison
20) “If you are explaining, you are losing.” — J.C. Watts
21) "All politics is local." -- Tip O'Neill
22) “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth - some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.” -- Michael Kinsley
23) “The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.” — Megan McCardle
24) “The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.” — Plato
25) “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Winston Churchill
My tagline.
First thing I thought of when I read it, too!
I think Hattaras is correct; Krauthammer has it backward. I’m a conservative and I think liberals are extremely evil. And stupid. Evil and stupid.
He was probably right when he said it (2002) but times have changed and the Liberals have changed. They've become emboldened and violent. Thanks Obama.
Guess I shouldn't be here, either! Seriously, though, I seem to read a lot more here about how liberals must think we're stupid when they try to put over their evil schemes! :-/
How about a few charmers I’ve collected from PIAPS:
“God Bless the America we are trying to create.” Hillary Clinton
“Look, the average Democrat voter is just plain stupid. They’re easy to manipulate. That’s the easy part.”
Hillary Clinton, as told to Dick Morris in “Rewriting History”, 2005
“I don’t give a f**k about them. Get them out of here and get them away from me.” Hillary Clinton talking about Secret Service agents, “First Family Detail”, by Ron Kessler
“Maybe Mr. Stevens should have contacted me if he wanted to live, if he wanted security. He should have thought about that.” Hillary Clinton, Benghazi hearings, Oct. 2015
“I will get the NRA shut down for good if I become president. If we can ban handguns we will do it.” Hillary Clinton, interview with the Des Moines Register, Aug. 8, 2015.
“Yeah, I got him off. So what? Who cares? We got the evidence thrown out, so he walked. (laughs) I mean, sure, we knew he did it (laughs) but it didn’t matter.” Hillary Clinton, audio recording from 1982 discussing child rapist she defended when a criminal defense attorney in Arkansas.
“What the hell are we doing here? There’s no money here. Get me the hell out of here.” Hillary Clinton while driving through Upstate NY as Senator in “First Family Detail” by Ronald Kessler.
“The Benghazi thing will fade. The public isn’t interested.” Hillary Clinton, as reported in TIME Magazine, July 2014.
“I believe the primary role of the state is to teach, train and raise children. Parents have a secondary role.” Hillary Clinton, “It Takes A Village”.
2) “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.” – Charles Krauthammer
It seems like a good summation of the situation to me.
George Carlin’s quip about the true meaning of the word “bipartisan” would fit right into this list. He seemed to be channeling Samuel Clemens on that one.
Mark Twain —
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”
“We have the best government that money can buy.”
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
“To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.”
“Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.”
“Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.”
“All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.”
She thinks we’re idiots who need her “wisdom” to survive! Pure evil! :-D
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
(“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain)
"The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so." : Josh Billings - [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885) American humorist and lecturer
"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other points of view." -- William F. Buckley Jr.
Capitalism is when Man exploits Man, In Communism it’s the other way around.
A Communist is someone who has nothing and is willing to share it with you.
“Realize that the doctor’s fight against socialized medicine is your fight. You can’t socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.” —Ronald Reagan
The National Park Service, Run by the U S Department of the Interior, asks us," Please Do Not Feed the Animals" Their stated reason for this policy being that " The Animals will grow Dependant on the Handouts, and Then they will NEVER LEARN to TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES".
"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - you know your nation is doomed." Ayn Rand
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.” Daniel Webster
Economics and politics are intertwined and possibly the same thing.
--Karl Marx 1848
They are the most ridiculous quotes
“The entire aim of practical politics is to menace the population with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H. L. Mencken
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Did I call them, or use the word, “best”? No; I did not.
Krauthammer gets many things wrong.
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