Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Whatever man seeks lies in his heart of love.

The memory of Mullah Mustafa Barzani has become a crucial part of the idea of what it means to be Kurdish today.

This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Give full attention and devotion to each act.

I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.