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William E. Simon

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Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.

Bureaucracies themselves should be assumed to be noxious, authoritarian parasites on society, with a tendency to augment their own size and power and to cultivate a parasitical clientele in all classes of society.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

Explaining something sensible to Lord Killanin is akin to explaining something to a cauliflower. The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves -- our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.", "...freedom is difficult to understand because it isn't a '(ital) presence' but an '(ital) absence'ï¿½an absence of governmental constraint. People who are unfamiliar with severe political constraintsï¿½severe enough to make them aware that they have lost their freedomï¿½often don't know what freedom is and on what it depends.

Explaining something sensible to Lord Killanin is akin to explaining something to a cauliflower. The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

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