Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

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.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

You are received the way you present yourself

One must gauge one's trust carefully.

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

Never argue. To win an argument is to lose a sale.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

I'm one of those people who tells my wife, "No coaching from the sidelines."

Be smart, drink your wine.

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.