Jude

“In the next 25 years, we will see a 100 percent increase in the number of American retirees. The number of workers, however, will increase by only 15 percent. Given those numbers, how can these programs survive? Under our current tax code, these programs can be maintained only by increasing the tax on those who work, reducing benefits for those who have retired or by increasing the age of retirement.”
― John Linder, The Fair Tax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS

“The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition.”
― Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1960

“Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.”
― Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1960

“A genuine primary is a fight within the family of the party - and, like any family fight, is apt to be more bitter and leave more enduring wounds than battle with the November enemy.”
― Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1960