One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
Thomas SowellJust as members of American teachers unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in Britain have insurance that allows them to go to private hospitals. In both cases, those on the inside realize how bad these institutions are, regardless of what they say to those on the outside.
Thomas SowellAgainst the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.
Thomas SowellThe real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.
Thomas Sowell