"We worked hard and did sensible things.
Even governments sometimes do sensible things.
Republicans should be reflecting on the fact that if a Republican president were in office right now, and even if he or she did sensible things, the economy would still be in the dumps.
Such ordinary and sensible regulations rely on, among other things, our belief that in a sane and democratic nation regulation may become excessive, but need not, because reasonable people are watchful and can be relied on to do sensible things.
Amis falls back on the weak idea that he was mad, an envious loner driven into homicidal lunacy by the taste of power, and argues that when he did sensible things, like defeating Hitler, he stopped being mad.
And next week, unless his budget plans are more apt, Britain risks paying a heavy price.The government has done sensible things with Mr Osborne as chancellor not least cutting corporation tax, raising the income-tax threshold and pinching Mark Carney from Canada for the Bank of England.
UKIP MP Douglas Carswell said he would support the government in Parliament when it does "sensible things" while attacking the Conservatives as "too patrician and corporatist".
The former chancellor said he was not surprised that Conservative MPs Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless had defected to UKIP, and said the Conservatives should be "a strong and sensible party" that does "sensible things on immigration".
