David Harsanyi quotes
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“Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.”
-- David HarsanyiSource : "The Libertarian Case for Palin" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2008.
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“Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their critical thinking.”
-- David HarsanyiSource : "No, Arne Duncan, ‘White Suburban Moms’ Aren’t The Problem. (But you might be)". thefederalist.com. November 19, 2013.
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“Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.”
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“Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.”
-- David HarsanyiSource : "Nanny State 911!". Interview with Nick Gillespie, www.reason.com. September 28, 2007.
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“Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.”
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“In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.”
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“Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.”
-- David HarsanyiSource : "How Liberalism Destroyed the American Jew" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 10, 2013.
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“I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.”
-- David HarsanyiSource : David Harsanyi (2015). “David Harsanyi: Volume I”, p.2, Creators Publishing
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“Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.”
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“A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.”
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“Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.”
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“Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.”
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“Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn'€™t pass the laws he favors. It's an argument that's been mainstreamed by partisans and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency.”
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“'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.”
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“The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.”
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“Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire.”
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“The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. Its a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.”
-- David HarsanyiSource : "Right blogs on guns: 'We win'" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. April 18, 2013.
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