"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."

"The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite."

"The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers."

"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."

"Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary."

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."

"The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?"

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."