Thomas Sowell Quotes
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
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To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.
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Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
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Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
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I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.
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There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.
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Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
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When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.
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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.