“A good government does dirty jobs.”
“When the government does the job of a parent, that's socialism.”
“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”
“Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”
“Telling the truth can be a dirty job.”
“The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.”