You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They are far right libertarians, very anti-government, very pro-business, very anti-tax, anti-regulatory, in favour of free markets ruling the day.
I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.
Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power - could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.
The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.
Republicans ought to propose conservative answers to the concerns that are uppermost on most voters’ minds. The libertarian-populist method seems to be to start with the solutions and then to imagine that voters have the relevant concerns. And while many of the proposed solutions have great potential appeal to conservative voters, few would do much to expand their ranks.
Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.
I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
A caged canary is safe but not free.
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.
Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.
The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.