Vice President Gore likes to say that the federal government is now back to the size it was in President Kennedy’s Administration, but a look behind the curtain shows no such shrinkage. Real staff reductions are almost entirely confined to the Defense Department, for reasons having more to do with the de-invention of the Soviet Union than the reinvention of the government of the United States.Most of the civilian side of the government has expanded dramatically — especially if compared with the era of the Kennedy Administration, when there was no Medicare, no Medicaid, no Department of Housing and Urban Development, no Department of Education, no Department of Energy, no Department of Transportation and no Environmental Protection Agency, just to name a few things the government was content to ignore. Barron’s
Barron’s March 29, 1999 (http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB922491784617955647.htm)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Medicare, let’s remember, is a handout, and the people who pay …
Medicare, let’s remember, is a handout, and the people who pay for much of it – working taxpayers – have interests that need to be considered too. Holman W. Jenkins Jr.
On Medicare ‘Reform’, July 9, 2003, Wall Street Journal.
They that thrive well take counsel of their friends William Shakespeare Venus & …
They that thrive well take counsel of their friends
William Shakespeare
Venus & Adonis
That long [Canadian
That long [Canadian] frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only be neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
Speech in honour of R.B. Bennett, Canada Club, London April 20, 1939
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[T]he bailout rewards speculators playing with middle-class money. The only thing that can correct the crisis is the marketplace, not a bailout. George Miller
D-California, on the 1995 Mexican financial crisis. Then in early 2009: “The only question about this [stimulus/bailout] package really is, is it large enough?”
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It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply. Al Gore
In letters to constituents from Sept. 15, 1983 – August 22, 1984
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, its …
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog. Mark Twain
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have …
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it. John F. Kennedy
U.S. President, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
When tyranny comes to your door, it will be wearing a uniform. …
When tyranny comes to your door, it will be wearing a uniform. Jack Mc Lamb
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that …
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato