"Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else."

-- James M. Buchanan

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“I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out. We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right.”
“Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.”
“The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.”
“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.”

Source : «Being VP is just like being a lesser Kardashian» by Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. August 3, 2012.
“Fashion is what others give you, style is what you give yourself”
“Europe is a collection of free countries.”
“A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)”
“Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.”

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