Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the United States, liberals have made it virtually impossible [to increase the supply of oil] by banning drilling in all sorts… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care.' It can buy a smaller… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Has Obama ever grown even a potted plant, much less a business, a bank, a hospital or any of the numerous other… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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