There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.