Jim Brown Quotes

If you understand liberals at all, you know that they'll never agree to market-based solutions for ideological reasons and because an expanding dependency class is their most essential power source.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.

The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.

Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.

Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Government is good at one thing. It knows how to cripple you and then hand you a crutch.

The classical case is that of the starving man who steals a loaf of bread. That he should be allowed to go free is understandable enough; but it is less understandable that 'society's' obligation not to let him starve should devolve upon one baker chosen at random and not on society as a whole.

I'd actually call myself pretty much a liberal. A progressive liberal. Because I do think that government is there to be a provider of services for people who cannot provide for themselves.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.

I happen to think CHIP has done a terrific job for for people who really needed the help. I have taken the position around here my whole Senate service. I believe in helping those who cannot help themselves but would if they could.

People focus on the labels when they are not sure what they mean. What people call socialism these days is Eisenhower Republicanism!

The deck has always been stacked against me.

The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution.

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

Those are the liberals who don't want to win. Those are the liberals who are in love with noble defeats, and I'm sick and tired of noble defeats.