Michael Barone > Quotes

“Liberal elites have been the political allies of teachers' unions that have opposed Hardening the public schools--even if...they work to make sure that their own children get a Hard education.”
― Michael Barone, Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future

“Princess Mary, William’s wife, and Princess Anne cooperated in the ouster of their father, James II. It was, as Pocock continues, “a spectacular display of reason of state rising above the restraints of common morality; daughters dethroned their father, even the sanitized version of King Lear was hard to perform for many years, and what William of Orange and John Churchill severally did is still enough to take your breath away if you think about it.”
― Michael Barone, Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers

“Was a dead Vietnamese in civilian clothes part of the enemy forces? Officers started to make up numbers to give their superiors the body count they wanted.”
― Michael Barone, Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future

“The stubborn resistance to Hardening America's schools helps account for the fact that Americans up to age eighteen live mostly in Soft America, just as most Americans after the age of eighteen live in Hard America.”
― Michael Barone, Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future