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“If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.”

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Kevin Drum

Kevin Drum, born in October 1958, is a well-known blogger. His blog focuses on political, economic, and social issues, and is appreciated by readers for its in-depth analysis and unique insights. more

“If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we can’t describe that effectively, then we’re doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day of serving in Washington D.C., from my boyhood, to have the opportunity to have represented my hometown in our nation's capital, and now to have the opportunity to serve the entire nation as vice president is ... it's just deeply humbling.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“I really couldn't be more excited about the opportunity that we have with this new president [Donald Trump] to really turn this country around and get the economy moving again and have America standing tall again, home and abroad, to make America great again.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with.”

Self Interest Skills Trade Self Interest Honing

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.”

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Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.”

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Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.”

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Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“It doesn't matter how many televisions and computers and pieces of stereo equipment the Chinese send to us, even if they're sending them to us only in return for some funny, little, green pieces of paper. That is a balanced trade. They got what they wanted: the green pieces of paper. We got what we wanted: the plush toys, the computers, the stereo components.”

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Author:P. J. O'Rourke

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