“Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.”
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You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.