Julian Sanchez Quotes

• [There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is to shift 'cheating' from the private to the public sphere.

  Julián Sánchez

  Cheating, Strong, Government

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• It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.

  Julián Sánchez

  Scary Stories, Frustrated, Liberty

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• If it were really the case that terrorists "hate us for our freedoms," we'd be getting more popular with Al Qaeda every month.

  Julián Sánchez

  Hate, Democracy, Als

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• Los detractores del mercado ... podrían entender la afirmación de que, en algún campo concreto, los mercados no requieren intervención -aunque se mostrarían escépticos-, pero la idea de que, por principio general, los sistemas complejos funcionan bien por sí mismos sin intervención benigna parece que sólo podría ser producto de una fe casi religiosa. ... Por supuesto, esto es casi exactamente al revés. Es la idea de que todo orden debe explicarse por una mente que funciona al timón, no su negación, lo que tiene más afinidad con el instinto religioso.

  Julián Sánchez

  Religious, Order, Ideas

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• But even if you thought they were adequate at the time, when you're collecting data in bulk-you've got it. The data lasts until you delete it; the rules only last until you decide to change them, and change them in secret.

  Julián Sánchez

  Data, Secret, Adequate

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• It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

  Julián Sánchez

  Religious, Order, Ideas

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• Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves?

  Julián Sánchez

  Gobierno, Años, Gente

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