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The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. ”
While Pop lived his life in comfort, he was always generous to the less fortunate. ”
My father's card-playing buddies treated me as a plain, ordinary, commonplace kid destined for mediocrity - or less. I suppose they expected that I would spend my life as a clerk of some sort. ”
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. ”
I found that I not only tolerated taking risks, I loved it. ”
It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government. ”
By the mid-1950s, the young bond traders on the Street were becoming more and more of a fraternity. We organized informal luncheons every Thursday in an effort to educate financial writers, who knew next to nothing about municipal bonds. ”
Pop taught me respect for my fellow man and reverence for my God. He taught me the importance of family and religion. ”
The very nature of the government, and the direction it's been heading in for the past 40 years, is one of contrived government solutions to all the problems in the United States. ”
Everybody in this society that has been lurching toward socialism and collectivism for 40 years has their hand out. And the propensity of Congress is to spend, spend, elect, elect. That hasn't changed, and it isn't going to change for a long time. ”