Glenn Reynolds Quotes

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays ...

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers ...

The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.

Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.

[B]ipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties.