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Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

With Clinton, of course, the term "world stage" was peculiarly literal: he had a fading vaudevillian's desperation to be loved.

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

The right to evaluate risk for oneself is part of what it means to be a functioning human being.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

There's an extremely fine line between "boldly transgressive" and spiritually barren,

But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.

The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.

When people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word.

It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

There was less private-sector business experience in Obama's cabinet than in any administration going back a century.30

The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.

How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?

The free world is shuffling into a psychological bondage whose chains are mostly of our own making.

Bisexuality is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system.

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

He loved Minnesota's flora and fauna and seemed ill-suited as either a fawner or floorer, a

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for ...

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People's Republic of Himself.

When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

Big government makes small citizens.

There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.

In Britain, everything is policed except crime.

If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

much of the western world has a big hole where its sense of identity ought to be.

When the family dies, the nation follows ...

If any "white supremacist" were really a "supremacist", he wouldn't be living in his mom's basement.

Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?

The cradle-to-grave welfare society enfeebles the citizenry to such a degree you can never generate enough money.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

Barack Obama is a symptom rather than the problem. He didn't declare himself president; America chose him.

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

Discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, Your ace is just a social construct.