Quotes by Larry Elder

"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."

"Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13."

"Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives."

"Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government."

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

"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."

"Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor."

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

"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."

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

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

"Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation."

"The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt."

"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."

"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 goal without a plan is just a wish."

"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."

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

"Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard."

"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."

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

"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. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years."

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

"My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well."