The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal. (Charles Krauthammer)

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

Charles Krauthammer

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