Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
Cal ThomasPoliticians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
Cal ThomasGovernment aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.
Cal ThomasIf the pro abortionists were not in control of the press, I am convinced that not only would the debate on abortion be over by now (have we really even had a national debate?), but the Pro-Life side would be victorious because we would have seen the pictures every night on television of what is taking place behind the doors of the abortion clinics and hospitals.
Cal ThomasThe high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.
Cal Thomas