One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.