I periodically watch some Youtube of Thomas Sowell.

[John Schmidt]

A few of his quotes, quite thought provoking. More politicians need to have a chat with this man, they might actually learn something. Then again, probably not because then they would have to admit they're wrong. Heaven forbid that would ever happen. 
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QUOTES:
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

[Ramie]

I used to read his articles quite often, he and Walter Williams.  He's the one that helped me realize the only one who pays taxes are people, not Corporations or businesses.  Ultimately anything they pay gets passed along to the consumer.

[Serk]

Smartest man alive as far as I'm concerned..... Few more gems:

"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department."

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

“The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”

“Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management."

“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”

“Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.”