"Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation."
"We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight."
"They criticize me for harping on the obvious, but if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know that they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves."
"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means."
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
"Four-fifths of all of our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still."
NBA pundits have gushed about the supposedly glorious Celtics-Bulls series. The length of the series merely highlights the weakness of a Celtics team bereft of Kevin Garnett and Leon Powe. If either of those players had been present this series would have ended in four games.
The Celtics without Garnett and Powe are an interesting middle of the pack team that will be lucky to make it to the Conference Finals where they will be swept by the Cavs. With Garnett and Powe they repeat as champs.
You will not create any new government programs, agencies, bureaus, etc...
1. They are unnecessary.
2. They cannot be properly financed.
3. They are rarely administered in a consistently competent manner.
4. They always have unintended negative consequences.
George Will has penned an analysis of the state's finances that is as astute as it is scathing...Here are some of the highlights from today's Washington Post.
"If, since 1990, state spending increases had been held to the inflation rate plus population growth, the state would have a $15 billion surplus instead of a $42 billion budget deficit, which is larger than the budgets of all but 10 states. Since 1990, the number of state employees has increased by more than a third. In Schwarzenegger's less than six years as governor, per capita government spending, adjusted for inflation, has increased nearly 20 percent."
"What actually ails California is centrist evasions. The state's crisis has actually been caused by "moderation," understood as splitting the differences between extreme liberalism and hyperliberalism, a "reasonableness" that merely moderates the speed at which the ever-expanding public sector suffocates the private sector."
"California has become liberalism's laboratory, in which the case for fiscal conservatism is being confirmed."
-George F. Will
"The words of a President have an enormous weight, and ought not to be used indiscriminately."
