I have always believed in enforcing the border, and doing that before you do amnesty.

Trumpism' is the expression by the white working class of a lot of legitimate grievances that it has with the ruling class.

No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions.

Here's the secret you should remember whenever you hear someone lamenting how tough it is to get ahead in the postindustrial global economy: Few people work nearly as hard as they could.

As for tattoos, it does no good to remind curmudgeons that tattoos have been around for millennia. Yes, we will agree, tattoos have been common - first among savage tribes and then, more recently, among the lowest classes of Western societies.

More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make you good, doesn't make you valuable, doesn't make you wise.

I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to marriage, attraction to religion, and which tended to increase attraction to crime.

The religiosity of Americans I don't think has ever been determined by how much money they make.

It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of the great religious traditions - as an undergraduate in selective colleges or in the honors programs of large universities.

Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me.

It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes a lot of homework.

To voice one's curmudgeonly thoughts - 'I hate tattoos,' 'If that kid says 'like' even one more time, I'm going to fire him,' and such things, instantly labels one as a geezer.

Thailand was the transforming experience in my life. Thailand is where I grew up.

I had friends, but I was always a bit weird.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.

My professional background consisted of evaluating specific programs the government was sponsoring in education or social services or, when I was in Thailand, rural development.

It's much more fun to talk to an audience that includes a lot of people who disagree with me.

I'm not like Ann Coulter.

I don't lose any sleep over people calling me names.

When 'The Bell Curve' came out, I'd have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always within the confines of the event and I was eventually able to speak.

Probably the smartest president we've had in terms of I.Q. in the last 50 years was Jimmy Carter, and I think he is the worst president of the last 50 years.

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.

People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. - there is no government money - because they think the work we do is valuable.