Caroline Baum famous quotes
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Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.
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Which brings me to the point: In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If it had any, I missed it. What we had was a government-prescribed course of amphetamines (to keep it up), antibiotics (to prevent infection) and antidepressants (to make it feel better). It endured regular ***** injections from both monetary and fiscal authorities. And it still has no real muscle.
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It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.
-- Caroline Baum
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
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A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
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The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
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Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.
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A sheriff arrested me. I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure my men-in-uniform fetish began that day. The sheriff was hot. And he handcuffed me. I've never been the same.
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NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles.
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You know, I think in Europe NASCAR is not regarded as high as it should.
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Drive it like you stole it, homie.
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