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The Grand Old Party’s abiding affection for a ‘bigger and better’ presidency isn’t entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama’s first-term economic performance itself was not ‘big’ but mediocre - tiny, even. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there’s a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn’t leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk? (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
People value Halloween, like Valentine’s Day, because they can tell themselves that it’s not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government’s economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won’t inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
McCain likes strong defense, and he’s viscerally suspicious of big companies. So he’s more a Square Deal guy than a New Deal guy. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
By playing on people’s desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
What’s wrong with the auto industry isn’t that it failed to create jobs. What’s wrong is that it emphasizes jobs over general growth itself. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren’t appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently. (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job (Amity Shlaes Quotes)
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won’t inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years (Amity Shlaes Quotes)