Wanniski Quotes & Sayings

I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be. — Judi Dench

In an intellectual revolution there must be ideas and advocates willing to challenge an entire profession, the establishment itself, willing to spend their reputations and careers in spreading the idea through deeds as well as words. — Jude Wanniski

After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy. — Steven D. Levitt

The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus, — Jude Wanniski

The story of how the Laffer Curve got its name begins with a 1978 article by Jude Wanniski in 'The Public Interest' entitled, 'Taxes, Revenues, and the Laffer Curve.' — Arthur Laffer

All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking. — Jude Wanniski

Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian. — Jude Wanniski

Sometimes women just need to cry. — Colleen Hoover

Why are people so fucked up?" I asked
"Maybe you do need college, Poiter," Everett said. "You want to know why people are so fucked up? Son, that's about the only question I can answer with even a small measure of authority. It's because they're people. People, my friend, are worse than anybody. — Percival Everett

Someday , Tamani told himself. Someday it'll be me. — Aprilynne Pike

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art. — Igor Stravinsky

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism. — H.L. Mencken

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy. — Mitch McConnell

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did. — Erica Jong

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. — Chuck Palahniuk

I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love. — Andre Leon Talley

People appeared to have no clue how truly horrible they were. — Drew Nellins Smith

There are basically two approaches to solving the problem of terrorism. One is that you understand the mind of the terrorist in order to establish defenses against it. The other is that you kill all the terrorists and all the potential terrorists. — Jude Wanniski

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression — John Locke

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being. — William James

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. — Arthur Miller