Journalist Quotes

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

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.

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.

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. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

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.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

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.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least,

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.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.