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

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" People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. "

" The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. "

" If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say. "

" 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? "

" The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. "

" Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. "

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

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

" 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? "

" It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. "

" What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. "

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

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

" Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. "

" There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. "

" Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society. "

" 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. "

" The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. "