Peter Brimelow Quotes
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I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.
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Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.
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Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.
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I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.
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A nation is an organic thing.
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I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.
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The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.
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Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
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This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.
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Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
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Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical.
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I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.
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I think good teachers are underpaid.
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Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.
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The real boneheads are the libertarians.
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I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.
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I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.
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I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached.
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If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.
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There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.