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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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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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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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
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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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We need to mark the difference between what another may offer, threaten, or refuse while respecting my liberty and what offers, threats, and refusals violate it. It is the line between my rights and the rights of another. Marking that line is liberty’s most difficult intellectual task.
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They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.
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Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.
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I'm a one-man idiot.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
