Quotes from Mickey Kaus

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

My father was not a political animal.

I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.