The recent stock market weakness is traceable partly to ‘the realization we …

The recent stock market weakness is traceable partly to ‘the realization we are going to have more regulations on business and bureaucracy.’ However this will be short lived as ‘socialism around the world has proved to be such a failure that it no longer is a threat.’ Sir John Templeton
as reported in the May 8, 1994 Miami Herald

Senator, the thing we forget is why we’re here and what …

Senator, the thing we forget is why we’re here and what we’re trying to do. The government doesn’t provide productive jobs. That’s not what we’re supposed to do. … The job of government is to protect the people, to enforce the law, and to make sure people play by the rules, like the umpires on a ball field. It’s not supposed to be our job, I think, to punish people for playing the game well. Tom Clancy
Executive Orders, 1996