It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to more than there is. . .Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.

Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs.