Larry Elder

“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.”

“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.”

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

“To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.”

“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. The man was tired. He was tired.”

“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, we used to.”

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

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

“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.”

“The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.”

“Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.”

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

“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.”

“Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.”

“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.”

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

“The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.”

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

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

“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.”