Charles A. Murray (Charles Alan Murray) Quotes

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

Charles A. Murray

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• Problem
• Poverty
• Drug
• Crime
• Welfare
• Homelessness

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• I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

  

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• To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

  

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• Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

  

  Charles A. Murray
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Poverty