Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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.

Stars are cracks of light for night than pierces the heart. (Étoiles sont fissures de lumière - De la nuit que transperce le cœur.)

I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

There is no worse death than the end of hope.

It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you