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"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."
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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."

"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."

"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever."

"But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?"

"The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us."

"There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber."
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"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing."


"Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies."


"The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them."


"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."


"People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes."


"Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats."


"The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers."


"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."


"Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help."
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