“If you want to make a difference in America, you need to be prepared for a very long, very frustrating slog.” IfsWantNeedsLongAmericaDifferencesPreparedMaking A DifferenceBe PreparedFrustrating Author:Kevin Drum
“I hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and then got discouraged when it didn't pan out.” IdeasMightHateLosesLeaderI HateDiscouragedFuture Leaders Author:Kevin Drum
“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.” IfsWantNeedsGivingInspirationGoalGiving UpFollowersDisgusting Author:Kevin Drum
“The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.” RealProblemSeriousOppositesInflationReal ProblemsBorrowersDeflation Author:Jack Kemp
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingGovernmentInterestMistakeCuttingPolicyRevolutionTaxesBuiltRateMythologyRecoveryMassiveDoomedDeficitTax CutsInterest RateAusterityPuncture 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.” GuyOpportunityNationsPresidentStreetsGrewGrew UpWestVicesParksServingVice PresidentHometownHumblingBoyhoodCreeks 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.” CountryHomeAmericaMovingTurnsOpportunityPresidentEconomyTrumpStandingExcitedTallStanding Tall Author:Mike Pence
“Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with.” SelfInterestSkillsTradeSelf InterestHoning 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.” WaySelfThreeInterestLaborTradePursueDivisionAdamProsperousThree ThingsSelf InterestSpecializationDivision Of Labor Author:P. J. O'Rourke