Thomas Sowell Quotes

Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.

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• Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.

  

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• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  

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• The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.

  

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• I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

  

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• Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

  

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• Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
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• We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

  

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• Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Government
  • Facts
  • Disaster