The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or nice. But if any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the passing years and generations.

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.