quotes about Interventionism

“Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.”

“If you're a writer, you're always working.”

“What is real is beyond all reach.”

“Beauty means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. A lot of different ways in which things can be beautiful. But this really has a very specific meaning and which is more along the lines of elegance which is that we say an idea is beautiful or elegant in mathematics or physics if a very simple principle or a very simple idea, or simple set of ideas, turns out to be very powerful and leads to all sort of unexpected structure and unexpected predictions.”

“I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.”

“Lofty designs must close in like effects.”

“Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies.”

Source : Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.67, Penguin

“Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.”

“For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned....”

“The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.”