60.00% - Fifty years of Great Society programs haven't fixed poverty — doing the same thing and expecting a different result isn't persistence, it's ideology.
40.00% - Head Start, DARE, ethanol mandates, Cash for Clunkers — programs studies proved don't work, kept running anyway because someone's job depended on it.
Doubling down on a failed approach is not progress.
55.00% - We built a constitutional republic — elected representatives, accountable to voters, bounded by the Constitution; not a pure democracy or a technocracy.
45.00% - Legitimate government exists only by consent of the governed — when it stops representing the people who created it, it loses its claim to authority.
100.00% - Government's been too timid on deregulation for decades. If we've been undershooting free-market reforms, overshoot the correction. Half-measures just slow the decline.
50.00% - Doubling down on a failed approach is not progress.
50.00% - One step forward, two back is not progress.
50.00% - Wicked problem