I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He’s pursuing reparations but it’s not racial reparations. It’s global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.
Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.
Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.
Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism – it is in human nature.
Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.
While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic.
Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.
With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.
America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.
What I’ve realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it’s very powerful.