33 Quotes by John Fund

When the islands became a state in 1959, ... there was a broad consensus in Congress that Native Hawaiians would not be treated as a separate racial group, and that they would not be transformed into an 'Indian tribe.'

No party has a monopoly on honesty, but with the collapse of old-style GOP machines in places like Indiana and Long Island, New York, it's Democrats who have a greater opportunity to cheat.

Hawaiians would also be unable to fight back, as the state does not allow for referendums, ... And, just as on American Indian land, a shopkeeper who is part Hawaiian could claim exemption from state taxes and other laws, giving him an advantage over his next-door, non-Native Hawaiian competitor.

I think the bitterness generated by this election should prompt people of good will in both parties to try and find common ground, or as Democratic Senator Chris Dodd put it, ""Make it easy to vote, but tough to cheat.

Other speakers claimed Georgia's new photo-ID law would suppress poor and elderly minority voters who might lack such a document. When the bill passed the Georgia House in March, black legislators sang slave songs and one even slammed a prisoner's shackles on the desk of the sponsor,

Regardless of whether or not the vetting process was complete, it represented impossible conflicts of interest,

The astonishing thing is how puzzled the Yale community was that the rest of the world cared and they didn't.

Well, Mr. Kerry's constant unfounded references to African-Americans having their votes: "stolen" or "taken away" in 2000 are far more likely to exacerbate racial divisions.

The bottom line on all of this is that, increasingly, election systems are so sloppy in New York that you cannot tell where the incompetence ends and the fraud could begin.