The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

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.

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

If you've got good chemistry at the top, it's an enormous help. It's easy to have good chemistry with some, not so easy with others. With [Robert Mugabe], for example.

We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

Always ask for the truth. Just make sure the time is right.

I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!

Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.