“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.

That level of expectation that I’m going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.

To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.

Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.

Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.

There are conservative people in all colours in America.

. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.