The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
BEN STEINThe American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
BEN STEINMy parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
BEN STEINPolitics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
BEN STEINI tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
BEN STEINAs Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
BEN STEINPersonal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
BEN STEINThe first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
BEN STEINI think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
BEN STEINWhen are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
BEN STEINIt’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.
BEN STEINI am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
BEN STEINKeep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
BEN STEINI have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
BEN STEINI think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
BEN STEINBut when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
BEN STEINFaith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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