 Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. |
| The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. |
| One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. |
| Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. |
| 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. |
| Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. |
| 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. |
| The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. |
| Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. |
| Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? |
| If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. |
| Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. |
| People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. |
| Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. |
| People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. |
| Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. |
| There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. |
| People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. |
| You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. |
| The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. |
