One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.
James Q. WilsonI believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care
James Q. WilsonThe great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.
James Q. WilsonIn terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
James Q. Wilson