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There are no more liberals They've all been mugged.

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

James Q. Wilson