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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough o

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. – Thomas Sowell

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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. – Thomas Sowell

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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. – Thomas Sowell

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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. – Thomas Sowell

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You cant be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute whos for you and whos against you. – Samuel Johnson

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My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of thats the permanent campaign, part of thats a word Ive been using more frequently, tribal. Our politics has become tribal: Its us versus them. – Evan Bayh

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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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