Mickey Kaus Quotes

“An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.”

— Mickey Kaus

“I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers.”

— Mickey Kaus

I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.

— Mickey Kaus

“People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.”

— Mickey Kaus

“Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.”

— Mickey Kaus

“I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.”

— Mickey Kaus

“One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.”

— Mickey Kaus

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

— Mickey Kaus

“Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.”

— Mickey Kaus

“I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.”

— Mickey Kaus

“I'm not anti-immigration.”

— Mickey Kaus

My father was not a political animal.

— Mickey Kaus

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

— Mickey Kaus

“I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.”

— Mickey Kaus

“If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.”

— Mickey Kaus

“My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.”

— Mickey Kaus

“Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?”

— Mickey Kaus