Quote of the Day

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on December 7, 2011

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You do not examine legislation in light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

—Lyndon Johnson

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1 1 Steve Landsburg
December 7, 2011 at 3:01 am

There was a comment posted here — I believe from a first-time commenter — shortly after this post went up. I managed to hit a wrong button and delete that comment by accident. I hope the commenter will forgive my clumsiness and re-post!
2 2 Joseph Fetz
December 7, 2011 at 3:10 am

No problem.

I must wonder, what of the wrongs/harms if it is properly administered? That would be my topmost consideration with regard to any legislation.

I don’t know if it is word for word, but that is the gist of what I said.
3 3 Charles Maxwell
December 7, 2011 at 9:23 am

Four words: Great Society Improperly Administered!
4 4 Jerry
December 7, 2011 at 11:16 am

Patriot Act–However Administered….
5 5 Otto Maddox
December 7, 2011 at 3:58 pm

Lyndon Johnson, the laughable paragon of virtue! Who’d a thunk?
6 6 Vic
December 7, 2011 at 5:04 pm

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

– Warren Buffett

source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett
7 7 W. Bethard
December 7, 2011 at 9:04 pm

If only Landslide Lyndon, who started impoverished and ended a multi-millionaire after 32 years of public service–he always asserted Lady Bird was an incredible business woman–had followed his “improperly administered” principle in foreign and military policy, we would have missed the famous cheer, “Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids have you killed today?”
8 8 Doc Merlin
December 11, 2011 at 3:01 pm

“You do not examine legislation in light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.”

Worse, you also have to look at the harm if “properly administered.”