"David Boaz" is the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, an United States/American Libertarianism/libertarian think tank.

He is the author of Libertarianism: A Primer, published in 1997 by the Free Press and described in the Los Angeles Times as "a well-researched manifesto of libertarian ideas." He is also the editor of The Libertarian Reader and co-editor of the Cato Handbook for Congress (2003) and the Cato Handbook on Policy (2005). He frequently discusses such topics as School choice/education choice, the growth of government, the ownership society, his support of drug legalization, and the rise of libertarianism on national television and radio shows.

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Half the stories in every newspaper should be headlined 'Stop me before I legislate again.

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There's a real question whether we want to get all those people back into New Orleans. It's more logical that the money should follow the people.

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Why are taxpayers in California and Texas and Massachusetts paying for a museum in Indianapolis?

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The initial reaction was to throw heaps and heaps of money at the problem. While you've had increases in welfare spending over the last 40 years, you've also had increases in the number of unwed mothers, increases in crime.

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Social conservatives have discovered this is an issue you can win on.

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Why is that [museum], No. 1, part of a highway bill and, No. 2, why is it part of a federal highway bill?

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Among advocates of limited government there is despair. This is the biggest-spending president since Lyndon Johnson. And if he spends the kind of money that's being talked about here, I don't know if there will ever have been a president who increased spending as fast as this one did.

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Some 6,000 special projects [in the transportation bill] are not getting any economic oversight.

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Bush is a big government president.

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