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" 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. "

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" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds? "

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

" Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is. "

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

" Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. "

" Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. "

" 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. "

" Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? "

" You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody. "

" If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. "

" 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. "

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

" Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. "

" Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. "

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

" Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right? "

" All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. "

" 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. "

" Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. "

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

" 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. "

" Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. "