It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.

Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.