“Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist ...”

“To the liberal class, every big economic problem is really an education problem, a failure by the losers to learn the right skills and get the credentials everyone knows youll need in the society o...”

“Were all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich.”

“he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth centurynaturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social satirewhich would eventually topple the ...”

“In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinter group into the states dominant political faction, that would reduce Kansas Democrats to third-p...”

“I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.”

“They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.”

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seek...”

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”