When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Thomas SowellHaving spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it, politicians have now moved on into micro-managing automobile companies and medical care. They are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And that is not going to happen until the voters recognize the fact that political rhetoric is no substitute for competence.
Thomas SowellTo say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.
Thomas SowellThe big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Thomas SowellOne of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
Thomas SowellAt least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.
Thomas Sowell