Famous Quotes


Andy Rooney

I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some
governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to
ban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

I don’t think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are
things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America and see what happens. Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

I have the right NOT to be tolerant of others because they are different,weird, or tick me off.

When 70% of the peo ple who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law
of Probability.

I know what sex is, and there are not varying degrees of it. If
I received sex from one of my subordinates in my office, it wouldn’t be a private matter or my personal business. I would be FIRED immediately!

I believe that if you are selling me a milk shake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of
fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!< /p>

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come
over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their
interpretations.

I believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause
is more dangerous than a Hell’s Angel with an attitude.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating
system that’s better, and put your name on the building.

It doesn’t take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when ne
cessary, and say NO!

I am sick of Political Correctness. I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be
African Americans? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don’t go around saying I am a European American because my great, great, great, great, great, great g
randfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.

Ayn Rand

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that
there can be no compromise on basic principles.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

America.s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to .the
common good,. but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America.s industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance.and thus the whole country
was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren.t enough criminals,
one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny
individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

It stands to reason that where there.s sacrifice, there.s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there.s service, there.s someone being
served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. A
nd intends to be the master.

The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive. To a creator, all relations with men are secondary.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

The Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals — it does not prescirbe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government — it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the Citizens’ protection against the government.