“I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think...” — J. D. Vance Quote

I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.

The subsidy for employer-sponsored coverage has tethered health care to employment in a way that virtually no economist endorses.

Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.

I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.

The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.