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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just survive, but you can have a decent life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, there is an image of me out there for which advocacy of a universal basic income is inconsistent. It doesn't fit the narrative because this is supposed to be the hardhearted, racist, sexist, homophobe, Charles Murray. And he wants to increase spending on the poor? That doesn't fit.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that a great deal of what made America special is lost beyond recall, and I don't have any good policy ideas that I am at all confident will go very far in bringing that back.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
IQ is a very important predictor, not just of academic success, but of economic success.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who run the country have enormous influence over the culture, politics, and the economics of the country. And increasingly, they haven't a clue about how most of America lives. They have never experienced it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want the new upper class to start preaching what it practices. They are getting married and staying married in large numbers. They work like crazy, long hours. They even do better going to church than lots of the rest of America. Why not just say, these are not just choices we have made for ourselves. These are rich, rewarding ways of living.
- Big Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a big difference between being good and being nice. Being good involves tough choices - tough love.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ecumenical niceness is just pabulum.
- Be Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population were propagandised into buying into a certain code of morals. I would be happy if we could emulate that in some way in America.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally changed the signals and the incentives facing low-income people and encouraged a variety of trends that soon became self-reinforcing.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not want my children to grow up only knowing other upper-middle-class kids like themselves.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am no longer a complete pariah in some academic quarters.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still want to find a way that leaves people free to live their lives without telling them what to do.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they have been in decades.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's always been very good at providing help to people in need. It hasn't been perfect, but they've been very good at it.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to keep the government out of the business of giving incentives to have or not have kids, or incentives to marry or not marry.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
When America installs a minimum income, it's going to be doing it in a very different historical context than Switzerland or Sweden or Germany, or any other country might do it. And we're doing it in a context where it has the potential, I think, for much better consequences than in those other countries.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are trivial compared to jacking up rates on the middle class.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole career has been one wrong answer after another as far as the left is concerned.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A part of me always felt like an outsider and still does.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is what old guys do. They get dark and pessimistic.
- Behaviors
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a new lower class that's large and growing that has fallen away from a lot of the basic core behaviors and institutions that made America work, and we have a new upper class that's increasingly isolated from and ignorant of mainstream America.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm talking about the white working class, here's what I'm defining: high school degree, no more, and working in a blue-collar job or a low-skilled service job. When I'm talking about the white, upper-middle class, I'm talking about people who work in the professions or managerial jobs and have at least a college degree.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new upper class devotes incredible amounts of effort to raising their kids but that also includes incredible amounts of effort in getting their kids into the right preschool in some elite communities which I think is going a little bit too far.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, do I think watching 35 hours of TV a week is a terrific thing to do? Not particularly. But do I think you're shutting yourself off from a lot of American culture if you are so completely isolated from what goes on, on popular TV? Yeah, you are!
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1960, it was still - no nostalgia here - an age when you could leave your door unlocked even in urban neighborhoods.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have you ever held a job that caused a body part to hurt at the end of the day? Because my feeling is, if you can't answer yes to that question, you are in big trouble in trying to understand the country you live in.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way that social norms become social norms is not through any systematic process. It is through a flowering of an understanding within a culture.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can get a good doctor in a minute and a half. Getting a really good electrician - that's hard.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. - there is no government money - because they think the work we do is valuable.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably the smartest president we've had in terms of I.Q. in the last 50 years was Jimmy Carter, and I think he is the worst president of the last 50 years.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'The Bell Curve' came out, I'd have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always within the confines of the event and I was eventually able to speak.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
White supremacist? Let's see: if you have a guy who was married for 13 years to an Asian woman and who has two lovely Asian daughters, wouldn't that disqualify him from membership in the white supremacist club?
- Explicitly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is this rage on campuses about Donald Trump and - as someone who has written pretty explicitly about my disapproval of Trump - I can sympathize with that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't lose any sleep over people calling me names.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not like Ann Coulter.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much more fun to talk to an audience that includes a lot of people who disagree with me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to have seen millions of votes left blank for president to send a message there are millions of voters out there who do not like ideologue or Donald Trump.
- Evaluating
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- Nov 07, 2020
My professional background consisted of evaluating specific programs the government was sponsoring in education or social services or, when I was in Thailand, rural development.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.
- Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we ought to strip our laws and regulations of everything that rewards or recommends or requires preferential treatment by race. I think that is one of the single most unfortunate changes of the 1960s and it is one that we can change at no cost.
- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intelligence seems to blossom in the barest ground.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had friends, but I was always a bit weird.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thailand was the transforming experience in my life. Thailand is where I grew up.
- Geez
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- Nov 07, 2020
To voice one's curmudgeonly thoughts - 'I hate tattoos,' 'If that kid says 'like' even one more time, I'm going to fire him,' and such things, instantly labels one as a geezer.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes a lot of homework.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of the great religious traditions - as an undergraduate in selective colleges or in the honors programs of large universities.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The religiosity of Americans I don't think has ever been determined by how much money they make.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to marriage, attraction to religion, and which tended to increase attraction to crime.
- Fraud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there is a libertarian position on abortion. Maybe if you took a poll of libertarians, it might be that a majority would be pro-choice, but, the libertarian position is to protect the rights of individuals against the use of force and fraud.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make you good, doesn't make you valuable, doesn't make you wise.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for tattoos, it does no good to remind curmudgeons that tattoos have been around for millennia. Yes, we will agree, tattoos have been common - first among savage tribes and then, more recently, among the lowest classes of Western societies.
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- Nov 07, 2020