Romney: 'I'm not concerned about the very poor'

[The Mikado]

I'm not concerned about the very poor, and neither are most Americans.  They give money to charities, in the hope that it helps the few who have encountered tragedy in their lives.  The rest?  Largely responsible for their own situation.

Americans are for lifting up the deserving and helping those who face difficulties.  People who suck at life?  They can drown.

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[The Mikado]

There are a lot of bleeding hearts on here. I suspect age has a lot to do with it. As a wise man once put it:

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart.
If you're not a conservative at 30, you have no brain.

Who is this wise man?

[The Mikado]

There are a lot of bleeding hearts on here. I suspect age has a lot to do with it. As a wise man once put it:

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart.
If you're not a conservative at 30, you have no brain.

Who is this wise man?

I've heard it attributed to both Churchill and Buckley, but I have never investigated.

It may well be Buckley. Churchill's attribution is apocryphal particularly considering the actual course of his political career (he switched parties when he was fifty).

A cursory Google search suggests that it was adapted from a quote by Francois Guizot on the monarchy vs. republic question: "Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head."

It's not really a fortuitous origin, and it's kind of proof that that quote can be used to justify positions that seem pretty horrible in retrospect (monarchism).