If you want to get into nation building, start with your own nation.
If you don’t like gay marriage, don’t marry a gay.
Don’t try to save an economy by saving its banks; save its banks by saving its economy.
Don’t try to be in the middle when there is no middle.
Don’t compromise with a sullen, vengeful and beaten down opponent; they won’t compromise with you if you let them rise again.
If bad advisors give you bad advice, encourage them to spend more time with their families.
Don’t start a negotiation by compromising away your most extreme demand
Don’t just look at GDP growth numbers; focus instead on how added national wealth is distributed.
If you think the people who elected you are too stupid to appreciate what you’ve done for them while in office, don’t be surprised if they are also too stupid to vote for you again.
The Fed should treat commercial banks the same way these banks treat their own borrowers; only lend them money if they use it for approved purposes like cheaper consumer loans and loans to small businesses, not stock market trading.
To boost national spending and get us out of this deep recession, a Social Security tax holiday funded with an excise tax on bank bonuses.
If you fight wars of conquest, conquer and apply the boot while pillaging; if you fight wars of liberation, leave immediately after liberating.
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