“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”

“People who think they can reliably predict complex systems are people who don’t know their limitations.”

From: The American Spectator

“The only way to learn from experience is to have different experiences.”

“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”
“You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.”
“If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.”

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

“The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits.”

“Some people’s unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation.”

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“The organizations that actually change things are the ones that have a time horizon that’s longer than 36 hours.”

“What we learn from history is that no one learns from history.”

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”

“Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.”

“Brains can be hired by the hour, just like muscle. Only character is not for sale at any price.”

“If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day, maybe you’re the asshole”.

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.”

“I’m not going to insult your intelligence by suggesting that you believe what you just said.”

The first rule of pessimism: it can always get worse.