Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. — 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
“Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation... — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will… — 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
Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama's ideology has been based on a vision… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The President is a phrase-maker par excellence. He admires trite sayings and revels in formulating them. But when he comes to their… — 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
Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican - and Democratic - Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters,… — 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
One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history. — 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
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the big differences between Democrats and Republicans is that we at least know what the Democrats stand for, whether we… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority:… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“A Yoruba governor, defeated through vote fraud, was later found by a court to have won in fact by a million votes.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to… — 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
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
“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
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
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
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
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
What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy". — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
