“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”

“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”

“Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.”

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

“Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?”

“Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options”

“What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?”