Thomas Sowell Politician Quotations

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

What makes it possible for politicians to do so many things that are economically counterproductive is that neither the public nor the media know enough of the basics to understand what's wrong with what they're saying.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.