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" One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. "

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" The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. "

" 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. "

" Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. "

" 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. "

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

" Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. "

" The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. "

" 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. "

" It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. "

" Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. "

" Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. "

" All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. "

" Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency. "

" Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. "

" I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with. "

" If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. "

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

" 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. "

" If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. "

" 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. "

" A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. "

" 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 least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. "

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

" Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? "

" 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. "

" In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people. "

" Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions. "

" 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. "