Mickey Kaus famous quotes

04-12-2025

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.
-- Mickey Kaus

#Writing #Thinking #Topics
People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.
-- Mickey Kaus

#People #Lasts #Resorts
I'm not anti-immigration.
-- Mickey Kaus

#Immigration
Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?
-- Mickey Kaus

#Running #Government #Unions
Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?
-- Mickey Kaus

#Want #Stigma
I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.
-- Mickey Kaus

#Boxers #Doctrine #Beef
Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.
-- Mickey Kaus

#Party #Skins #Lines
My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.
-- Mickey Kaus

#Father #Thinking #Judging
If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.
-- Mickey Kaus

#Work Ethic #Healthy #Goes On
I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.
-- Mickey Kaus
I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.
-- Mickey Kaus

#Wall #Paper #Experts
I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.
-- Mickey Kaus

#Energy #Republican #More Time
I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.
-- Mickey Kaus

#Anger #America #Victory
I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers
-- Mickey Kaus

#Capacity #Obligation #Serving God
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed
-- Mickey Kaus

#Character #Ignorant #Bad Character
My father was not a political animal.
-- Mickey Kaus

#Father #Animal #Political
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
-- Mickey Kaus

#Writing #Thinking #Care

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