Mickey Kaus

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

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

“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.”

“I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers.”

“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.”

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

“My father was not a political animal.”

“I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.”

“An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.”

“I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I'm not anti-immigration.”