Pugsley's Quotes

#1. Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

John Pugsley

#2. The consumer gets the best deal when the product is cheapest, and the product is cheapest when people can freely compete in the market place.

John Pugsley

#3. All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

John Pugsley

#4. Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

John Pugsley

#5. Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

John Pugsley

#6. Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.

John Pugsley

#7. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side." Though

Alan Dean Foster

#8. Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

John Pugsley

#9. Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at.

Rick Perlstein

#10. They spend a lot of time Googling themselves, too.)

Rick Riordan

#11. I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.

Kurt Sutter

#12. Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.

Walter J. Phillips

#13. Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Joe Laurie Jr.

#14. I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.

Hal Price

#15. Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

John Pugsley

#16. Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Melanie Laurent

#17. Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer.

John Pugsley

#18. Honey, if crazy had a ringmaster, I'd be holding the whip.

E.A. Gottschalk

#19. I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

John Pugsley

#20. Human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

John Pugsley

#21. Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is being lowered as a result.

John Pugsley

#22. When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen are all of the property, business, and jobs that would have been created if citizens were left with the right to choose.

John Pugsley

#23. How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

John Pugsley