“People who talk incessantly about ‘change’ are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.”

“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice.’”

“If you cannot achieve equality of performance among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, how realistic is it to expect to achieve it across broader and deeper social divisions?”

“The last person to trust with power is someone who is dying to have it. The best person to wield power is someone who is reluctant to do so, but who will do it for a while as a civic duty. That is why term limits should make it impossible to have a whole career in politics.”

“Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who “speak truth to power” but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.”

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”

“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”

“There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.”

“How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on, and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?”

“Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?”

“Some Americans will never appreciate America, until after they have helped destroy it, and have then begun to suffer the consequences.”

“The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government — people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty.”

“The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.”

“There are people who can neither find happiness in their own lives nor permit those around them to be happy. The best you can do is get such people out of your life.”