Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

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

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.