We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say 'Oh by the way we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there ' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform mandates and all as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts in speech or on paper some style.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy it will in the end not produce food either.