I can’t believe I’m saying this, but where does QAnon go for the apology?
Comedian Bill Maher, speaking about the Jeffrey Epstein story, on Straight Shooter with Stephen A., SiriusXM (February 4, 2026).
As for the loss of experience and expertise if there were no career politicians, much — if not most — of that is experience and expertise in the arts of evasion, effrontery, deceit and chicanery. None of that serves the interest of the people.
Thomas Sowell, “A Real Term Limit,” Capitalism Magazine (March 20, 2013).
In regione caecorum rex est luscus.
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, Adagia (1500; 1536).
What cannot be cured must be endured.
François Rabelais, Pantagruel: Fifth Book (1564).
Since risky investments usually pay more than safer investments, the incentive is for a government-supported enterprise to take bigger risks, since they get more profit if the risks pay off and the taxpayers get stuck with the losses if not.
Thomas Sowell, “Bailout Politics,” September 30, 2008.
I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.
As quoted in Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1900) by Ephraim Emerton, p. 377.
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
Thomas Sowell, “Big Lies in Politics” (Townhall, July 31, 2012).
I know you’re sane and you know you’re sane. But what if we’re both wrong?
Robert Sheckley, “The Death of the Dreammaster,” in Martin H. Greenberg (ed.), The Further Adventures of Batman (1989), p. 24
That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.
Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982).
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
Milton Friedman, “The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community” (1983)