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- Endowed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
- Nov 07, 2020
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1914, there were two countries in the world that required you to have a passport if you wanted to enter - Czarist Russia and the Ottomans. Anywhere else, you could come and go as you pleased.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we haven't become the Liberty Party of an undoubted future, let us take this fact: the great totalitarian regimes have died. The Soviet Union broke up along ethnic lines, as we always thought it would. The Chinese - am I wrong? - are becoming a commercial civilization.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.
- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principle of not negotiating with terrorists is the only thing we can hold on to.
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- Nov 07, 2020