Live from the Republicans' Self-Made Gehenna: Irving Kristol: Irving Kristol in His Own Words: "Among the core social scientists around The Public Interest there were no economists...
...This explains my own rather cavalier attitude toward the budget deficit and other monetary or fiscal problems. The task, as I saw it, was to create a new majority, which evidently would mean a conservative majority, which came to mean, in turn, a Republican majority-so political effectiveness was the priority, not the accounting deficiencies of government...