"Let's face it, most of us are..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.”

“In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.”

“The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.”

“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

“There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.”

“YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.”

“When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.”

“The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.”

“Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.”