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Mark Steyn Quotes

Big Government is the small option: it’s the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives Picture Quote #1

If you’re 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you’re graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None Picture Quote #1

The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that’s before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems Picture Quote #1

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right Picture Quote #1

If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it’d pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won’t work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama’s 2011 budget deficit Picture Quote #1

Jesse Jackson’s living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture Picture Quote #1

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Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states’ rights, or his rights over State, or some such. Whatever the reason, the sight of an old Klansman blocking a little colored girl from Birmingham from getting into her office contributed to the general retro vibe that hangs around the Democratic Party these days Picture Quote #1

CNN? Oh, that’s that network with Larry King, who, like the Son of Sam, is a native of Brooklyn. Used to be owned by Ted Turner, who, like the Cincinnati Strangler, is a native of Cincinnati. Now part of Time Warner, founded by the Warner Brothers, the oldest of whom, Harry Warner, like many Auschwitz guards, was a native of Poland Picture Quote #1

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise Picture Quote #1

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy Picture Quote #1

Moderate Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they’re fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism Picture Quote #1

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it Picture Quote #1

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Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing Picture Quote #1

When you’re taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there’s nothing left to tax Picture Quote #1

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people’s pockets but to put more responsibility in people’s pockets Picture Quote #1

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him ‘warts and all’, he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy Picture Quote #1

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great customer service,Â except that you can never get out of the store Picture Quote #1

For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ’s Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population Picture Quote #1

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Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government Picture Quote #1

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter? Picture Quote #1

I think at a certain level compared - as was pointed out earlier, compared to what is happening in Europe, the United States still gets the safe-haven money. But underlying that, the United States is not the safe haven but perhaps the most dangerous place of all Picture Quote #1

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level Picture Quote #1

So there was President Obama giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that ‘now is the hour when we must seize the moment,’ the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats Picture Quote #1

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything Picture Quote #1

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The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death Picture Quote #1

Only in America does ‘health’ ‘care’ ‘reform’ begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine Picture Quote #1

General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary Picture Quote #1

After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don’t demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest Picture Quote #1

At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement’s aims: They’re anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life - just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth Picture Quote #1

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition Picture Quote #1

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Big Government is the small option: it’s the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives. (Mark Steyn Quotes) If you’re 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you’re graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None (Mark Steyn Quotes) The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that’s before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems (Mark Steyn Quotes) LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right (Mark Steyn Quotes) If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it’d pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won’t work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama’s 2011 budget deficit (Mark Steyn Quotes) Jesse Jackson’s living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture (Mark Steyn Quotes) Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states’ rights, or his rights over State, or some such. Whatever the reason, the sight of an old Klansman blocking a little colored girl from Birmingham from getting into her office contributed to the general retro vibe that hangs around the Democratic Party these days (Mark Steyn Quotes) CNN? Oh, that’s that network with Larry King, who, like the Son of Sam, is a native of Brooklyn. Used to be owned by Ted Turner, who, like the Cincinnati Strangler, is a native of Cincinnati. Now part of Time Warner, founded by the Warner Brothers, the oldest of whom, Harry Warner, like many Auschwitz guards, was a native of Poland (Mark Steyn Quotes) How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise (Mark Steyn Quotes) [Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy (Mark Steyn Quotes) Moderate Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they’re fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism. (Mark Steyn Quotes) The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it (Mark Steyn Quotes) Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing. (Mark Steyn Quotes) When you’re taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there’s nothing left to tax (Mark Steyn Quotes) The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people’s pockets but to put more responsibility in people’s pockets. (Mark Steyn Quotes) When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him ‘warts and all’, he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy (Mark Steyn Quotes) Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great customer service,Â except that you can never get out of the store. (Mark Steyn Quotes) For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ’s Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population. (Mark Steyn Quotes) Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government. (Mark Steyn Quotes) In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter? (Mark Steyn Quotes) I think at a certain level compared - as was pointed out earlier, compared to what is happening in Europe, the United States still gets the safe-haven money. But underlying that, the United States is not the safe haven but perhaps the most dangerous place of all. (Mark Steyn Quotes) America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level (Mark Steyn Quotes) So there was President Obama giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that ‘now is the hour when we must seize the moment,’ the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats. (Mark Steyn Quotes) The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything. (Mark Steyn Quotes) The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death. (Mark Steyn Quotes) Only in America does ‘health’ ‘care’ ‘reform’ begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine. (Mark Steyn Quotes) General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary. (Mark Steyn Quotes) After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don’t demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest. (Mark Steyn Quotes) At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement’s aims: They’re anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life - just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth. (Mark Steyn Quotes) Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition (Mark Steyn Quotes)

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