You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

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.

Hindsight isn’t a super power.

She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.

I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough.

The good Shepherd dog knows his master almost better than himself and must wonder indeed at the lack of the reverse.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

Every single person in the world could be a genius at something, if they practiced it daily for at least ten years (as confirmed by the research of Anders Ericsson and others).