“Americans are not only against government spending in the abstract but against each particular instance of it in the last two years.”—Claremont McKenna scholar William Voegeli at Hillsdale College Capitol Hill lunch on October 1, 2010
Current Wisdom
No Love For 70s
“I’m looking for a Ronald Reagan in 2012. I’ve lived through the 1970s.”—
George Washington University professor Henry Nau at the Heritage Foundation on September 30, 2010.
Modern-Day Voltaires
“The Tea Party Movement, otherwise known as the Great Peasant Revolt of 2010, has been greeted by the country’s ruling class with all the sympathy that Voltaire expressed toward the Catholic Church: ‘Kill the infamous thing!’”— Dr. Marvin Folkertsma, political science professor, Grove City College.
My Own Private Scandinavia
“The U. S. spends more per capita on social programs than honest-to-God Scandinavian welfare states.”—author Steve Hayward in the Summer 2010 Claremont Review of Books.
Of Fools & Founders
“It is good because the sun will burn out, the Ohio River will flow backwards, and the cow will jump over the moon 10,000 times before any modern president’s conception is superior to that of the Founders of this nation.”—Rep. Mike Pence, R-Indiana, at Hillsdale College on September 20, 2010.
An Exceptional People’s Constitution
“As long as ‘We the People’ revere our Constitution it cannot harm our national interest, because the Constitution is our national interest, the very content of our Exceptionalism.”—University of Pennsylvania historian Walter A. McDougall at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on July 27, 2010.
Islands in the Stream
“Even Obama refuses to endorse it and back up the California federal court, and now appears suddenly hesitant to impose the values of Fire Island on Parris Island.”—columnist Pat Buchanan on same-sex marriage.
Quotas for Communists
“So there was an Affirmative Action program for communists.”—
Author M. Stanton Evans on Soviet penetration of FDR’s Administration.
Republican or Republic Can?
“Benjamin Franklin probably would be a Republican if he were alive today.”—
Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institution in an appearance at the Cato Institute on September 1, 2010.
Reading and Breathing
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”—
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird.
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