David Harsanyi Quotes

• Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

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  Evil, Etc, Oppression

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• The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

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  Mold, Realization, Academic

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• Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

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  Tired, Sick, Morality

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• Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

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  Political, Mysterious, Turns

  "The Libertarian Case for Palin" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2008.

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• A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.

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  Air, Want, Conditioning

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• The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

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  Father, Passion, Rights

  "Right blogs on guns: 'We win'" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

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  Children, Math, Thinking

  "No, Arne Duncan, ‘White Suburban Moms’ Aren’t The Problem. (But you might be)". thefederalist.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire.

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  War, Victory, Ferguson

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• Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

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  Levels, Nannies, Initiative

  "Nanny State 911!". Interview with Nick Gillespie, www.reason.com. September 28, 2007.

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• Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

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  Mystery, Popularity, Usefulness

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• In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

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  Rocks, Imagination, Pet

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• Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

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  People, Old Testament, Peril

  "How Liberalism Destroyed the American Jew" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 10, 2013.

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• I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.

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  War, Believe, Drug

  David Harsanyi (2015). “David Harsanyi: Volume I”, p.2, Creators Publishing

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• 'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.

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  Country, Men, Order

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• Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn'€™t pass the laws he favors. It's an argument that's been mainstreamed by partisans and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency.

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  Party, Media, Law

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• Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

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  Ideas, Political, Offensive

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• Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.

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  Jobs, Arguing, Notable

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