Brian Kramp

“Liberals speak as if they believe in government and then pass policy after policy hamstringing what it can actually do. Conservatives talk as if they want a small state but support a national security and surveillance apparatus of terrifying scope and power. Both sides are attached to a rhetoric of government that is routinely betrayed by their actions. The big government–small government divide is often more a matter of sentiment than substance.”
― Ezra Klein, Abundance

“Every rise in housing prices is a policy failure.”
― Dan Wang, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

“If all the facts could be known, idiots could make the decisions.”
― Joe Coulombe, Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys

“Courage is a muscle memory. The tallest oak in the forest was once just a little nut that held its ground.”
― Michael Lewis, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story