Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.

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.

You have to stand out, do something, to be remembered.

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.

whenever the sun is going up, it's not going down

This is important, to represent our country. We've also got to be ready for the Minnesota Twins.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.