You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on 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.

The love of money can do wicked things to one's soul.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

The brain abhors discrepancies.