Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

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

We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.

You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.