“Like academic Marxists, who are their sisters under the skin, libertar...” — Jacob Weisberg Quote

“Like academic Marxists, who are their sisters under the skin, libertarians are far more interested in an ideal world than in the one where ordinary humans live.”

“The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.”

“Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political interests is acute.”

“In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.”

“Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.”

“My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.”