Charley Reese quotes

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. (Charley Reese)

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

Charley Reese

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

Charley Reese

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

Charley Reese

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

Charley Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Charley Reese

If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations.

Charley Reese

Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.

Charley Reese

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

Charley Reese

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

Charley Reese

We have to stop allowing economics to be used as a trump card. Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society. (Charley Reese)

When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise complete power over the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Marines are in Lebanon, it's because they want them in Lebanon.

Charley Reese

Charley Reese

Occupation: American Writer
Born: January 29, 1937
Died: May 21, 2013
Quotes count: 12
Wikipedia: Charley Reese

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