Peter Brimelow Quotes

• If you’re going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Government and Rule

• I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he’s OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Government and Rule, Action

• I’ve been a financial journalist for 30 years.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalist

• I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers’ salaries. It’s the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Salary

• I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don’t really have the stomach for the fight.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Fight

• Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Immigration

• I suppose the White House thinks it’s doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Business

• The real boneheads are the libertarians.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real

• Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses’ interests, not the members.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intresting, Teachers

• This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we’ve had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Immigration

• Textbook publishers don’t even bother to advertise at their conventions.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publishers, Publishing

• I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Intresting

• I think good teachers are underpaid.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teachers and teaching

• I think Bush’s immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Immigration

• I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that’s not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Behavior

• Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it’s nascent.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Movement

• A nation is an organic thing.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nation

• The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Education

• There’s no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that’s allocated according to political muscle.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationship

• Why can’t teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teachers and teaching

Peter Brimelow (20)

Birth:	13th October, 1947
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Author, Founder, Journalist

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• 1969 - Luke Richardson
• 1929 - Tom Foley
• 1943 - Robert Upshur Woodward
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• 1959 - Raymond Chandler
• 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven
• 1980 - Roland Barthes
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