Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment.
Ilana MercerIf women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market.
Ilana MercerIn a free society, the โvision thingโ is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a โvisionaryโ bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.
Ilana MercerThe Little Guy, behind whom politicians strategically coalesce โ thumping majorities prevail in a democracy โ cannot abide by a reality in which greater wealth affords greater "access."
Ilana MercerA silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.
Ilana MercerBarack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama - his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence - these came from Kansas, not Kenya.
Ilana Mercer