The Clinton Administration’s health care plan is a large down payment on socialism, with future installments certain to be larger than advertised, whether measured in money or in lost freedom to make our own decisions about medical care that are literally questions of life and death. Thomas Sowell
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Forbes, January 17, 1994, (1930- ) American writer, scholar and economist, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute,Stanford, California
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‘Life is the division of human cells, a process that begins with conception…. The [Supreme Court’s abortion] ruling was unjust, and it is incumbent on the Congress to correct the injustice. I have always been supportive of pro-life legislation. I intend to remain steadfast on this issue…. I believe that the life of the unborn should be protected at all costs.In 1987, however, Mr. Gephardt decided to run for president, and he soon announced that he had discontinued his support for pro-life legislation. Specifically, he informed the National Right to Life Committee, ‘I do not support any Constitutional Amendment pertaining to the legality of abortion.’ Richard Gephardt
Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) in 1984
Mandates kill jobs, but even worse, they cost Americans freedom. Phil Gramm …
Mandates kill jobs, but even worse, they cost Americans freedom. Phil Gramm
USA Today, May 18, 1994
As long as Americans believe in the morality of altruism, that the …
As long as Americans believe in the morality of altruism, that the need of some is a claim on others to provide it, they will go for the political promises. … [S]ince the elderly need a drug benefit or wish it, and the rest have to sacrifice to meet it – by force. That is the lure and promise of political miracles. Rohit Rupta
June 20, 2003, Investor’s Business Daily
McCain . . . what does McCain stand for? He ran in the mantle of …
McCain . . . what does McCain stand for? He ran in the mantle of Barry Goldwater and then he completely humiliated that legacy by being a senator in the mold of a Rockefeller Republican rather than showing any tinges of Goldwater conservatism. Michael Savage
In all that ever mattered, you are unchanged. Old? Yes, we must …
In all that ever mattered, you are unchanged. Old? Yes, we must all grow old. Age is nothing but the sum of life. Mary Stewart
Arthur to Merlin. Merlin Trilogy, 1970, p 894
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit …
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs
You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out …
You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth. Henrik Ibsen
Playwright: Henrik Ibsen, 1882 (1828-1906)
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more …
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
A committee is an organism with six or more legs – and no …
A committee is an organism with six or more legs – and no brains. Robert A. Heinlein
in From the Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Author (1907-1988) (perhaps his most notable book is Stranger in a Strange Land)