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" Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. "

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" The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country. "

Thomas Sowell

Long

Looking

Country

" Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. "

" Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. "

" 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. "

" Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. "

" The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. "

" Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow. "

Thomas Sowell

Poverty

Own

" The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. "

" Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. "

Thomas Sowell

America

Need

" Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. "

" As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. "

" The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' "

Thomas Sowell

Racism

You

" Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. "

" It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.' "

" If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. "

" President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again. "

" What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. "

" The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. "

" Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention. "

" Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. "

" Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. "

Thomas Sowell

Warm

Society

" Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. "

Thomas Sowell

Ingenuity

Budget

" People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. "

" It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. "

" In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. "

" Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. "

" Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is. "

" 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. "

" The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. "

" The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up. "