margin

"When the tide goes out, you see who's been swimming naked."
-- Warren Buffett

no surprises

A heart that's filled up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal.
You look so tired, unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us.

-- Thom Yorke (Radiohead) 1997

credit expansion

"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved."
-- Ludwig von Mises

older, more conservative

"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."
-- variously attributed to Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Benjamin Disraeli, Otto von Bismarck, and others

deficit spending

"...Reagan proved that deficits don't matter."
-- Vice President Dick Cheney (Jan. 11, 2004)

America rules!

"The American way of life is not negotiable."
-- President George H. W. Bush, Earth Summit (Rio de Janeiro) 1992

American way of life

"[I]t should be the goal of policy makers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one. "
-- Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary (May 7, 2001)