'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.

Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the first place, by making home-ownership statistics the holy grail, for which everything else was to be sacrificed, including commonsense standards for making home loans.

The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

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

In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.