David Harsanyi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.
-- David Harsanyi

#Political #Mysterious #Turns
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their critical thinking.
-- David Harsanyi

#Children #Math #Thinking
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
-- David Harsanyi

#Tired #Sick #Morality
Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.
-- David Harsanyi

#Levels #Nannies #Initiative
Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.
-- David Harsanyi

#Mystery #Popularity #Usefulness
In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.
-- David Harsanyi

#Rocks #Imagination #Pet
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.
-- David Harsanyi

#People #Old Testament #Peril
I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.
-- David Harsanyi

#War #Believe #Drug
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
-- David Harsanyi

#Evil #Etc #Oppression
A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.
-- David Harsanyi

#Air #Want #Conditioning
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.
-- David Harsanyi

#Ideas #Political #Offensive
Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.
-- David Harsanyi

#Jobs #Notable #Arguing
Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'Â€Â™t the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn'Â€Â™t pass the laws he favors. It's an argument that's been mainstreamed by partisans and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency.
-- David Harsanyi

#Party #Media #Law
'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.
-- David Harsanyi

#Country #Men #Order
The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.
-- David Harsanyi

#Mold #Realization #Academic
Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire.
-- David Harsanyi

#War #Victory #Ferguson
The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. Its a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.
-- David Harsanyi

#Father #Passion #Rights

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