Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

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

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.