When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's failures. The Hoa suffered the same fate as the pizza parlour in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing except at the hands of the world's fourth largest army instead of a small, petulant movie director.

In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.

Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.