“You can't choose your children.”
Short story, "Some surrender", p.119
Short Stories, The Great Profundo and Other Stories (1987)
Tory leadership contest: Iain Duncan Smith warns of 'chaos' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48458370 BBC News (30 May 2019)
2019
“You can't choose your children.”
Short story, "Some surrender", p.119
Short Stories, The Great Profundo and Other Stories (1987)
From interview with Rajeev Masand
Source: “What’s wrong with Libertarianism”, p. 427
“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”
To Barack Obama, as quoted in The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006), Ch. 5
Context: The free market’s the best mechanism ever devised to put resources to their most efficient and productive use. … The government isn’t particularly good at that. But the market isn’t so good at making sure that the wealth that’s produced is being distributed fairly or wisely. Some of that wealth has to be plowed back into education, so that the next generation has a fair chance, and to maintain our infrastructure, and provide some sort of safety net for those who lose out in a market economy. And it just makes sense that those of us who’ve benefited most from the market should pay a bigger share. … When you get rid of the estate tax, you’re basically handing over command of the country’s resources to people who didn’t earn it. It’s like choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the children of all the winners at the 2000 Games.