America's always been very good at providing help to people in need. It hasn't been perfect, but they've been very good at… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I still want to find a way that leaves people free to live their lives without telling them what to do. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of 'Coming Apart' were basically a recapitulation of the argument in 'The Bell… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
It's much more fun to talk to an audience that includes a lot of people who disagree with me. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
When 'The Bell Curve' came out, I'd have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. - there is no government money - because they think the work we do is… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
People are starting to notice the great divide. The Tea party sees the aloofness in a political elite that thinks it knows best and… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I want to keep the government out of the business of giving incentives to have or not have kids, or incentives to marry or… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
You know, there is an image of me out there for which advocacy of a universal basic income is inconsistent. It doesn't fit the… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
White supremacist? Let's see: if you have a guy who was married for 13 years to an Asian woman and who has two lovely… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
When America installs a minimum income, it's going to be doing it in a very different historical context than Switzerland or Sweden or Germany,… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of the great… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Don't argue that you can't find a job that pays enough to support yourself. You can. You just can't find a job that will… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Trumpism' is the expression by the white working class of a lot of legitimate grievances that it has with the ruling class. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“Joan played den mother to the rebirth of American individualism. That she filled that role for so many is why I am grateful that… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image