by: KT McFarland, read in 2020

16 "...those inside the Washington bubble...were spending money we didn't have, to pay for programs we didn't need, in order to guarantee job security for politicians who didn't deserve it."
25 "The tragedy of Iraq is Bush shouldn't have gone in the way he did, and Obama shouldn't have gotten out the way he did."
30 "Throughout history, most societies have been governed by small elite groups: hereditary monarchs, landed aristocracies, police and military forces, religious leaders, dictators, a professional civil service, or a large, self-perpetuating Administrative State. Sometimes their power has been out in the open for all to see; sometimes it's been hidden behind the curtains."
85 "...we did something unique in the annals of world history. Rather than use our wealth and power to create an empire or subjugate the vanquished or exploit the weak, we did just the opposite. We helped the war-ravaged countries to rebuild, including even those countries responsible for starting the war."
297 Excellent summary of the World's biggest problem: China
307 "Common, average Americans have the right to rise up and replace the governing class whenever they become too entrenched, too self-serving, and too ineffective to serve a dynamic American society."
317 "We ask ourselves whether this is finally the end, whether this great experiment we call America will survive. But that's exactly what people thought during the Jacksonian Revolution, during the Civil War, during the Industrial Revolution, and during the Great Depression."
339 "...it was the very nature of government to expand and add to its power by chipping away at the rights of the people."
346 "America is a great nation for many reasons. But we are an exceptional nation for only one--that we have within our hands the power of regeneration. We can reinvent ourselves as a nation, just as we can reinvent ourselves as individuals."