Glenn Reynolds famous quotes

04-17-2025

As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend your taxes, it always seems to go to some guy in a leather chair downtown you never heard of.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Teacher #Father #Law
I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Movement #Politics #Grassroots
Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Accountability #Politics #Concerned
As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Politics #Tvs #Strategy
With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Memories #Secret #Ignorant
Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Media #Civilization #Would Be
I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Thinking #Racism #Criticism
It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Political #Feelings #Politics
The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Hurt #Racism #Politics
Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers...
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Politics #Taxpayers #Democrat
If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays...
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Racist #Definitions #Politics
Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Country #Couple #Gay
Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Confused #Politics #Libertarian
I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Thinking #Self #Would Be
Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Country #Class #Ideas
Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Tired #People #Political
When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Government #Political #Failing
What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Smart #Political #Smugness
[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Government #People #Historical
The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, weâ€™ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college arenâ€™t causes of middle-class status, theyâ€™re markers for possessing the kinds of traits â€” self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. â€” that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesnâ€™t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Home #College #Government
The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption â€” and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizensâ€™ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Running #Jobs #Opportunity
But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#White #People #Diversity
The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Interesting #Clock #Chimes
Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Issues #Usual #Politics
Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Ministry #Politics #Infuriating

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