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\”Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.\”

— Groucho Marx

\”We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.\”

– Richard Nixon

“I became a Conservative by being around Liberals and I became a Libertarian by being around Conservatives.”

– Greg Gutfeld

Considering some of the conversations and meetings I\’ve had today, this quote by Douglas Adams keeps sticking in my head:

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

In fact, I\’ve wondered lately if Douglas Adams was actually mortal, and not really a living god here only to poke fun at us and amuse himself.  Admittedly, unless reports of this death have been greatly exaggerated, his expiration puts a bit of a downer on that theory.

We must respect the other fellow\’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it\’s terrible politics. It\’s a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

Tom Tancredo

\”When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else\’s money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn\’t care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else\’s money on someone else, he doesn\’t care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that\’s government for you.\”

–Economist and Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman

Obama likes to compare himself to Lincoln, but Lincoln would almost certainly be horrified by Obama\’s policies.

\”You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves\”.

– Abraham Lincoln

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion… in private self-defense.

John Adams

When firearms go, all goes. We need them every hour.

George Washington