{"author":"Ben Shapiro","author_id":"Ben+Shapiro","total_quotes":41,"quotes":[{"text":"During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.","author":"Ben Shapiro","tags":["america","american","influence "],"id":8956,"author_id":"Ben+Shapiro"},{"text":"Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.","author":"Ben Shapiro","tags":["time","media","political "],"id":15780,"author_id":"Ben+Shapiro"},{"text":"Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.","author":"Ben Shapiro","tags":["nature","history","men "],"id":32347,"author_id":"Ben+Shapiro"},{"text":"The Left had to go searching for a new civil-rights struggle with which to cram conservatives back into their “victimizer” cubbyhole. The Left now pushes against civil rights in its ignorant search for the new struggle. There was, however, one problem: All the good civil-rights issues have been dealt with already. And so the Left, which focuses all of its efforts on social issues, was relegated to pushing crime-increasing myths about the evils of cops; the celebrities were forced to pretend that men peeing next to women was the next great Martin Luther King, Jr.–style struggle.","author":"Ben Shapiro","tags":["conservatism","left-wing","leftwing","politics","victimeattitude","victimpolitics"],"id":33393,"author_id":"Ben+Shapiro"},{"text":"Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences.","author":"Ben Shapiro","tags":["justice","control","television "],"id":47608,"author_id":"Ben+Shapiro"},{"text":"Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.","author":"Ben Shapiro","tags":["fat","kids","because "],"id":49603,"author_id":"Ben+Shapiro"},{"text":"Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.","author":"Ben Shapiro","tags":["capitalism","down","two "],"id":59282,"author_id":"Ben+Shapiro"},{"text":"It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.","author":"Ben Shapiro","tags":["relationship","god","war "],"id":64669,"author_id":"Ben+Shapiro"},{"text":"Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.","author":"Ben Shapiro","tags":["reality","moment","people "],"id":72550,"author_id":"Ben+Shapiro"},{"text":"Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.","author":"Ben Shapiro","tags":["success","people","rich "],"id":78286,"author_id":"Ben+Shapiro"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}