“Conscience without judgment is superstition.” Benjamin Whichcote Posted on October 25, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“I’ve arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.” Mort Sahl Posted on October 24, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Fix public schools and half of America’s myriad problems are solvable.” Dan Henninger Posted on October 22, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage, by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.” Richard Cohen, Senior Producer, CBS Political News Posted on October 20, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.” Marjane Satrapi Posted on October 19, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can get with a kind word alone.” Al Capone Posted on October 18, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Sales has the purity of quantitative results.” Anne Mulcahy Posted on October 17, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie ten Boom Posted on October 14, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” Thomas Sowell Posted on October 13, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” – – – Unknown Posted on October 12, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” Mark Twain Posted on October 10, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela Posted on October 7, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“What I’m looking for is a blessing not in disguise.” J.K. Jerome Posted on October 5, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Obama Term Annual GDP Projections were 3.6% vs 2.1% actual: To err is human. To not acknowledge errors is a bit vain. To not learn from them and adjust is stubborn. But to plan to continue the same failing policies for another four years while expecting a different result is simply insane.” Lawrence B. Lindsey, Former Federal Reserve Governor Posted on October 4, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“For every action, there is an unequal and opposite overreaction.” Newton’s Law of the Internet Posted on October 3, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The reason there are two senators for each state is so one can be the designated driver.” Jay Leno Posted on September 30, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“You know there’s a problem when you realize that out of the three R’s, only one begins with an R.” Dennis Miller Posted on September 27, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.” Rodney Dangerfield Posted on September 23, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The sales department isn’t the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department.” Philip Kotler Posted on September 22, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln Posted on September 21, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“As terrorist attacks become more frequent and closer to everyday life, public tolerance for liberal pieties will wane.” Bret Stephens Posted on September 20, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” Tom Clancy Posted on September 19, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Abraham Lincoln Posted on September 16, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Borrow money from pessimists – they don’t expect it back.” Steven Wright Posted on September 15, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.” Adlai Stevenson Posted on September 14, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.” General George S. Patton Posted on September 13, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” Harvey Mackay Posted on September 12, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators and employment for athletes.” Milton Friedman Posted on September 8, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” Winston Churchill Posted on September 7, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.” John C. Collins Posted on September 6, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“A socialist is a communist without a gun.” Dr Jim Garlow Posted on September 2, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” Tao Te Ching Posted on September 1, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy and politics.” Will Durant Posted on August 31, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. Period.” Milton Friedman Posted on August 30, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The most insidious power the media has, is the power to ignore.” Chris Plante Posted on August 29, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The people will believe what the media tells them to believe.” George Orwell Posted on August 25, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The president’s premise “ that you reduce income inequality by debasing the successful seeks to deny the successful the consequences of their choices and spare the unsuccessful the consequences of their choices. Because, by and large, income variations in society are a result of different choices leading to different consequences. Those who choose wisely and responsibly have a far greater likelihood of success, while those who choose foolishly and irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure.” Lou Holtz Posted on August 24, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Football: A sport that bears the same relationship to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.” Elbert Hubbard Posted on August 23, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Barack Obama and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right, while completely ignoring inequality of effort. The simple Law of the Harvest “ as ye sow, so shall ye reap“ is sometimes applied as, “The harder you work, the more you get.” “America is not divided by the differences in our outcomes, it is divided by the differences in our efforts.” Lou Holtz Posted on August 22, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it eventually kills all its pupils.” Hector Berlioz Posted on August 19, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” Napoleon Bonaparte Posted on August 18, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The party that jointly works to prevent stealing and exploitation is always an improvement on the party that carries out the stealing and exploitation.” Dinesh D’Souza Posted on August 17, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“You can’t legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government doesn’t first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they don’t have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” Ian Duncan Posted on August 15, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” Mark Twain Posted on August 11, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they are impossible.” Norton Juster Posted on August 10, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.” G. Gordon Liddy Posted on August 9, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink, and make the combination worthless.” Milton Friedman Posted on August 8, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Considering that our government exists to both serve and protect us, perhaps it would not be too much to demand an explanation: Precisely what legitimate interest of the U.S. was furthered by loading $400 million in cash in an unmarked cargo plane and delivering it to a state sponsor of terrorism?” Michael Mukasey, US Attorney General (2007-2009) Posted on August 5, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” Ronald Reagan Posted on August 4, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“There is a huge difference between not guilty and innocent.” Mark White Posted on August 3, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.” Ayn Rand Posted on August 2, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.” Casey Stengel Posted on August 1, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Lack of money is the root of all evil.” George Bernard Shaw Posted on July 29, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“An honest politician is one who, when bought, will stay bought.” Simon Cameron Posted on July 28, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“All statistical models are wrong, but some are useful.” George Box Posted on July 26, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“There are times when the devil you know is so bad you chose the the devil you don’t know.” Joshua Berman Posted on July 25, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.” Steven Wright Posted on July 22, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“There is nothing further away from Washington DC than the entire world.” Arthur Miller Posted on July 19, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.” Lenin Posted on July 15, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“You can’t solve a problem until you first admit you have one.” Harvey Mackay Posted on July 14, 2016 by mplacente Reply
” I don’t think conversations about race change hearts and minds, and that it is a bit naive to expect that outcome. I care about constitutional protections that those whose basic human and civil rights have been violated – be they police officers or citizens – have remedies under the law. It matters not whether Americans like each other, but it does matter that laws protect all Americans.” Jim Mitchell Posted on July 13, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Economists were invented to make weathermen look good.” Spencer Jakab Posted on July 12, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“We are what we pretend to be, so we should be very careful about what we pretend to be.” Kurt Vonnegut Posted on July 11, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Political reformer: one who wants his chance at the trough.” Malcolm Forbes Posted on July 8, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“You must come again to visit when you have less time.” Walter Sickert Posted on July 7, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Everybody, from time to time, should take a step back and watch himself go by.” Thomas Watson Sr. Posted on July 6, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Rightly or wrongly, there are existential questions about the future of the euro. Say what you will about the dollar, no one questions that it will be around 10 or 20 years from now.” Barry Eichengreen Posted on July 5, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.” Steven Wright Posted on July 1, 2016 by mplacente Reply
Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die.” Unknown Posted on June 30, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Evidence of climate change is not evidence of what causes climate change.” H.W. Jenkins, Jr. Posted on June 29, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” Milton Friedman Posted on June 28, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“You don’t set a fox to watching chickens just because he has a lot of experience in the henhouse.” Harry Truman Posted on June 27, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Half the people you know are below average.” Steven Wright Posted on June 24, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you’re heading.” Lao Tzu Posted on June 23, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.” Jimmy Dean Posted on June 22, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.” Winston Churchill Posted on June 21, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“There are indeed serious constitutional issues raised by Patriot Act disputes, but Democrats always end up on the same side of any policy affecting domestic or national security – conveying unmistakably that they find these functions morally distasteful, rather than morally necessary.” Dan Henninger Posted on June 20, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Terrorist attacks will never be a gun-control issue, despite what your social-media feed insists. Despite what your President thinks. The solution to terrorism is not to blame the gun lobby. The solution to terrorism is to fight and destroy terrorists, at home and abroad. Gun control is a separate conversation entirely.” Ashley H. Lukis Posted on June 17, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.” Frank Zappa Posted on June 15, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.” Josh McDowell Posted on June 14, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Can we finally drop the illusion that the jihadist fires that burn in the Middle East don’t pose an urgent and deadly threat to the American homeland?” The Wall Street Journal Posted on June 13, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Unless a person is honest, we have no right to keep them in public life; it matters not how brilliant their capacity. Before the November election, FBI Director Comey is in a special position to help disabuse the American citizenry of accepting dishonesty and abuse of power in government.” Scott Powell Posted on June 10, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.” Steven Wright Posted on June 9, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“I hoped all of our government was supposed to work for its citizens (we the people), but apparently this isn’t true as lawyers for the White House, IRS, State Department, Justice Department, Defense Department, EPA, Obama Care, et al, refuse to turn over information requested by Congress and continue to obfuscate, stonewall to delay forever! Whose government do they work for?” JPM Posted on June 8, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Service to others is the rent we pay for our place here on earth.” Muhammad Ali Posted on June 7, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” John Wooden Posted on June 6, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“If you take care of your customers, your customers will take care of you.” Warren Buffett Posted on June 5, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The feeling you get from raising children is something money could never buy. Which is good, because you will no longer have any.” Chris Erskine Posted on June 3, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The true aim of the recent Paris climate conference was to change the (capitalist) economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.” Christina Figueres, U.N. Climate Chief Posted on June 2, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” George Carlin Posted on June 1, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy, enthusiasm and hard work.” Harry Truman Posted on May 29, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Life’s ultimate statistic is the same for all people: one out of one dies.” George Bernard Shaw Posted on May 26, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“If you don’t get what you want, it is a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.” Rudyard Kipling Posted on May 25, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Your job is not about you. It’s about your customers.” Andy Kessler Posted on May 24, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Without data you are just another person with an opinion.” Edwards Deming Posted on May 23, 2016 by mplacente Reply
