"Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell

“There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.”

“It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.”

“Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.”

“There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”

“The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people.”

“Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.”

“Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.”

“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”

“Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.”