“I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get here.”
via Reagan Embraced Free Trade and Immigration | Daniel Griswold | Cato Institute: Daily Commentary.
“Let us not flatter ourselves on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first.” – Co-founder of Communism Fredrick Engles.
Had he took his own advice he’d understand why his experiment was doomed to failure. Markets may be cruel and uncaring, but they are as natural as evolution and erosion. Mess with them at your peril.
“When employees are too effective at hiding the consequences of bad management decisions, they act as enablers and do nobody any favors.” -Craig
“Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you’ll get ten different answers, but there’s one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won’t just take us. It’ll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars.”
Via Reason Hit & Run:
If Congress imposes economic sanctions on Iran as harshly as they have on businesses in the USA, we should crush them with no military force required.
Isn’t “anonymous” just a slicker way for people to push what’s in their political interests to establish, without having their biases and motives questioned?
Also an interesting take on annual performance reviews
(mistakenly posted at PP first)
“Christ didn’t tell us to go to the government and pass a bill to get some of these social problems dealt with. He told us to do it … The government has its role, but we need to keep firmly in mind the role of the government, and the role of us as individuals and as Christians on the other.” — Fred Thompson
Democracy is a two-way street. The citizens have as much responsibility for our self government as the people we elect. – Senator Eric Johnson.
“The unfettered free market has been the most radically destructive force in American life in the last generation.” — Hillary Clinton on C-SPAN in 1996.
“The election of Hillary Clinton has been the most radically destructive force in American life in this generation.” — Chris Farris, San Jose Costa Rica, 2010
“Yes, the two-party system would be more appealing if we didn’t have these two parties.” – Instapundit