Mickey Kaus Quotes

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

People have to eat and it’s good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

One danger, when you’re writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

My father was not a political animal.

I’ve often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that’s because they have a healthy work ethic.

I’m not anti-immigration.

I’m not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

I’m fortunate to make any money as a blogger.

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

I don’t have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer’s position has to spout and has to endorse.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?