There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“When I was an undergraduate studying economics under Professor Arthur Smithies of Harvard, he asked me in class one day what policy… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America...Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics. — 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
