France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
Thomas SowellIn a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
Thomas SowellAny policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
Thomas SowellImagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
Thomas Sowell