“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

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.

It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.

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

No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.

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

One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.