Larry Elder Quotes

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• A goal without a plan is just a wish.
• Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.
• Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other ethnic groups don't…
• Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.
• Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
• According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot…
• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the…
• Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich…
• But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly,…
• Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
• My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little…
• Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't…
• People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
• Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
• Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
• If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white…
• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having…
• Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of…
• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So,…

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