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1. "Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character." ~ James Q. Wilson

2. "I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape." ~ James Q. Wilson

3. "Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims." ~ James Q. Wilson

4. "Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers." ~ James Q. Wilson

5. "Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness." ~ James Q. Wilson

6. "A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism." ~ James Q. Wilson

7. "I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care." ~ James Q. Wilson

8. "In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly." ~ James Q. Wilson

9. "There are no more liberals They've all been mugged." ~ James Q. Wilson

10. "There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now." ~ James Q. Wilson

11. "There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want." ~ James Q. Wilson

12. "I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution." ~ James Q. Wilson

13. "We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage." ~ James Q. Wilson

14. "Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside. Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or even break into cars." ~ James Q. Wilson

15. "Half [of] us approve of other people's daughters having children out of wedlock, but hardly any of us approve of that for our daughters. [We] don't wish to be 'judgmental,' unless [we are judging] something we care about, [like] the well-being of the people we cherish" ~ James Q. Wilson

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I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?"
Author: Ayn Rand