Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

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.

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

Guys are so transparent most of the time. Unless, of course, they're dating you, in which case they are utter mysteries.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.