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The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

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President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

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It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

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What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

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

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

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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: June 30th, 1930

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