Glenn Reynolds Quotes

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.

Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.

If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.

[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.

But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

[B]ipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties.

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be.

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.