Quotes by Mickey Kaus

About Mickey Kaus:

Robert Michael "Mickey" Kaus is an American journalist, pundit, and author best known for writing Kausfiles, a "mostly political" blog which was featured on Slate until 2010. Kaus is the author of The End of Equality and had previously worked as a journalist for Newsweek, The New Republic, and Washington Monthly, among other publications. Kaus attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School but has never practiced law. He has a brother, Stephen Kaus, who is a lawyer and occasional commentator on The Huffington Post. His late father was California Supreme Court Associate Justice Otto Kaus, a Democrat. He currently resides in Venice Beach, California.
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I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

Mickey Kaus

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Mickey Kaus

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

Mickey Kaus

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

Mickey Kaus

My father was not a political animal.

Mickey Kaus

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

Mickey Kaus

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Mickey Kaus

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

Mickey Kaus

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

Mickey Kaus

I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers.

Mickey Kaus

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

Mickey Kaus

I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.

Mickey Kaus

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

Mickey Kaus

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

Mickey Kaus

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

Mickey Kaus

Author Bio

  • NameMickey Kaus
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornJuly 6, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist