Humor — Obama

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
Camille Paglia
If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.
John Maynard Keynes
... the federal principle remained strong long enough that during the 1950s, the federal highway program had to be called a “defense” measure in order to win approval, and federal loans to college students in the 1960s were absurdly called “defense” loans for the same reason.
Joseph Sobran
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Will Rogers
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Old-timers nostalgic about the 50's don't necessarily have the music in mind.
Monty Pelerin
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Samuel Johnson