“Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some ‘reputable’ economist, since there is no single standard to which all ‘reputable’ economists must repair.”

It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.

The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.

[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections.

The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.

[Economists’ advice] is something like patent medicine – people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won’t work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.

To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other.

The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress.

Conservative values aren’t really reflected in the radical values of the NRA. And the other idea was that the NRA is not what you think it is

I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

If conservatives get to call universal healthcare ‘socialized medicine,’ I get to call private, for-profit healthcare ‘soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.’

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

What is it with conservatives? Seriously, I’m not trying to be partisan but it seems like if they’re anti-illegal alien, they have illegal aliens working for them. If they’re anti-gay, they turn out to be gay. If they’re super Christian, they’re a witch.

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.