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Political Quotes by Thomas Sowell

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Money corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it didn't fuel dangerous legislation. He warns that political correctness can blind people to reality, and that failure is a key part of a free market's success. He questions fairness and social justice, pointing out how the idle rich differ from today's busybody rich who feed their egos.

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Experience trumps brilliance.

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Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

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In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

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There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

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

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Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.

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The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.

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The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

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The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation...

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You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth…

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Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the…

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You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any…

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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what…

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Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something…

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In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not…

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You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you…

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However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail'…

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The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep…

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Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise,…

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What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human…

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Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down…

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In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it…

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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest…

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Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural…

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After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the…

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Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

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There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

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Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

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Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

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One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

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Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with…

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In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

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One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

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We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is…

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Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and…

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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be…

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A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great…

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There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly…

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The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than…

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There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

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Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that…

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.

“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another”

The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that…

“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit…

The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that…

Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,…

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children…

What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else,…

“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.”

The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".