George H.W. BushThinkers

Competence is a narrow ideal. It makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

Jesse Jackson is the hustler from Chicago.

Political correctness is rooted in a laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred, but unfortunately, it replaces old prejudices with new one, declaring certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits.

Political correctness is a movement that began as a crusade for civility but has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

Supply-side economics is voodoo economics, in that the idea that inflation can be battled not by tightening money, but by giving tax-breaks to the rich which would allow ourselves to produce our way out of the recession is an exercise in wishful thinking.