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Andrew Tobias (born April 20, 1947) is an American writer. He has written extensively about investment, as well as politics, insurance, and other topics. He is also known for writing The Best Little Boy in the World, a 1973 memoir – originally pseudonymous – about life as a gay man. From 1999 until 2017 he was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee.

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There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.

2003, America, Jobs, Left, Under, War

The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.

Long, People, Offers, Offer

The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

Buying, Choose, Insurance, Sell, Want, You Choose

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

Reform, Campaigns, Want, Fortune, Finance, Campaign

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

Couple, Years, People, Thousand, Ahead, Matters

It's very nice to be able to be who you are.

Able, Be Who You Are, Nice

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

Increased, Life, Manage, Men, Numbers, Years

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

Patient, Self, Successful, Winning

In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.

America, Available, Cost, Short, Threat, Would Be

People don't need to find reasons to justify their not giving. What they need to find is the inspiration to give. And those who don't, but could afford to, are missing out on one of wealth's greatest luxuries.

Inspiration, Luxury, People, Giving, Give, Reasons

There's no such thing as altruism.

Altruism, Thing

Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.

Having, Health, Managed, Patches, Pieces, Together

Summers are the best. And I figured summer was my best time for meeting someone, too, because in the summer people are looking for someone to snuggle up with for the winter. And because in the summer I could take off my shirt.

Meeting, People, Summer, Summers, Take, Winter

Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.

Efficient, Firsts, Matter, May, Surprisingly

The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, " For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose.

Cost, Decide, Line, Lines, Nose, Noses

Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.

America, Fifteen, Insurers, Traditionally, Twelve

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

Control, Life, People, Think, Thinking

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

Cards, Credit, Pay, Risk

The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the clergy through the Presbyterian Ministers Fund, founded in 1759(still in existence), and the Episcopal Corporation, founded ten years later (subsequently merged).

Years, America, Corporations, Formed, Ministers

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

Against, Faults, Hard, Lawsuits, Legal System, Lunch

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