Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

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.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the risk of default. ... The idea that politicians can assess risks better than people who have spent their whole careers assessing risks should have been so obviously absurd that no one would take it seriously.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.