"Metaphors can be tricky things, but Manhattan's "debt clock" is as good as they come."

"Back in 1957, Henry Kissinger—then a brilliant, iconoclastic young Harvard scholar, with his eventual career as cynic…"

"Don't assume that policy proposals make sense in terms of their stated goals."

"Do some homework to find out what these people really want. I’m not talking about deeply hidden motives; usually the …"

"When you are dealing with the revolutionary power, it’s important to realize that it will make whatever argument adva…"

"The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation…"

"There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of Monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of i…"

"But there is another and greater distinction, for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and tha…"

"Who the Author of this Production is, is wholly unnecessary to the Public, as the Object for Attention is the Doctrin…"

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst sta…"