The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George F. Will
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
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If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
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In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
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This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.
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A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible lifestyles turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
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Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire
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Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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