If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
“I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.”
“The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.”