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 SowellIf politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
Thomas SowellEgo trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.
Thomas SowellBarack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies have already made that choice. Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: โNo war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it's over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a voteโ.
Thomas Sowell