Joel Achenbach Quotes

Coffee is one of the special things I have, instead of a social life.

Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.

Girls were nice to me in the same way that they would be nice to a hamster. I fantasized about wild encounters with females but knew they’d never happen unless my own involvement could somehow go undetected.

There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.

Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax rates. There can be subsidies. There can be allowances for depreciation. Lobbyists are adaptive creatures.