"Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior."
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"To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting."
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"Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard."
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"Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights."
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"The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt."
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"If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all."
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"Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government."
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"According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue."
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"People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary."
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"My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy."
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"The welfare state is an assault on families."
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"My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well."
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"Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13."
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"Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that."
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"Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that."
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"Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit."
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"Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world's their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons - who knows? In any case, Buffett now believe that government should redistribute the wealth earned by others to those who did not earn it."
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