Thomas Sowell

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

Thomas Sowell

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

Thomas Sowell

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

Thomas Sowell

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Thomas Sowell

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Thomas Sowell

Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing – before government intervention made housing unaffordable.

Thomas Sowell

Differences in habits and attitudes are differences in human capital, just as much as differences in knowledge and skills-and such differences create differences in economic outcomes.

Thomas Sowell

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

Thomas Sowell

Facts are not liberals’ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

Thomas Sowell

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Thomas Sowell