Quotes by Larry Elder - Page 1

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Inspirational
Success
Uplifting
Motivation
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The welfare state is an assault on families.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Assault
States
Welfare
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Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Behavior
Mind
Optimism
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Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Doing What You Want
Easy
Hard
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
People
Private Sector
Profit
Exist
Private
Sector
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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Cutting
Decrease
Doe
Equal
Increase
Spending
Washington
Cut
Proposed
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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Jobs
Children
Kind
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Government
Individual
Money Government More
Money More Than
Efficiently
Spend
Individuals
Wisely
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Demand
Gun
Gun Control
Legislation
Roots
Woman
Chicken
Colonel
Demands
Further
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Book
Just One
Spain
Years
Arabs
Translated
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People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Acquire
Effort
People
Work Money People
Work Money Value
Efforts
Spend
Value
Wisely
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Men
Black
Causes
Drowning
Homicide
Accidental
Auto
Cause
Preventable
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Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Government
Economy
Fewer
Government Spending
Mean
Regulation
Spending
Taxes
Everybody
Less
Domestic
Programs
Lower
Lower Taxes
Regulations
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Depression
Crow
Father
Great Depression
Irresponsible
Jim Crow
Mother
Raised
Jim
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Marriage
Dad
Mom
Little Bit
Married
Thinking
Mom Dad Better
Reconciled
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Kids
Father
Hours
Night
Sleep
Averaged
Nobody
Maybe
Realize
Worked
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Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Misguided
People
Wells
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Children
Educate
House
Moral
Opinion
Shooting
Feed
Equivalent
In My Opinion
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Dad
Airmen
Guy
Marine
Tough
Tough Guy
Equivalent
Marines
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Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Benefits
Connected
Law
Poor
Strings
Benefit
Disproportionately
Elite
Pull
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Behavior
Charity
Corporate
Principles
Roles
Welfare
Personally
Principle
Private
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Success
Age
Children
High School
Married
School
Simple
Child
Achieving
Before
High
Finish
Formula
Get Married
Having
Success Is
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People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Inspire
People
Self
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Tired
Averaged
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Administration
Individual
Security
Social Security
Support
Today
Workers
According
Each Individual
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Dad
Men
America
Angry
Reason
White
Anybody
Criminal
Delinquent
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Home
Active
Children
Divorced
Father
Outcomes
Remains
Supportive
Financially
Homes
Intact
Provided
Studies
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Airmen
Marine
Tough Guy
Equivalent
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
War
Conditions
Irresponsible
People
Reckless
Stupid
War On Drugs
Assumes
Bankrupt
Both
Too
Consume
Wrong
Morally
Tactically
Whether
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Jobs
Benefits
Causes
Consumers
Cost
Creation
Economic
Expansion
Globalization
Goods
Job Creation
Manufacturing
Outsourcing
Productivity
Unemployment
Job
Companies
Increases
Lower
Reduce
Services
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Health
Home
War
Brave
Cost
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Fire
Matter
Problem
Scream
Troops
War On Drugs
American People
True
Bring
Criminal
Politicians
Explain
Health Problem
System
Treat
Troops Home
Urge
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Battle
Emotion
Good News
Gun
Gun Control
Law
Legislation
Logic
Loses
Meaningless
News
Passion
Pits
Reason
Laws
Against
Contest
Crook
Often
Expect
Harmful
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Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world's their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons - who knows? In any case, Buffett now believe that government should redistribute the wealth earned by others to those who did not earn it.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Men
Believe
Blessed
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Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been pummeled for decades. Now that Fox News and conservative talk radio give people alternatives, critics squeal as if being sodomized.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Children
Lunch
People
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But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 - which contains the general welfare clause - seeks to restrain federal government, not expand it.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Government
Father
Retirement
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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.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Failure
Government
America
Capitalism
Possibility
Practice
Reap
Rewards
Theory
Accept
Individuals
Least
Lets
Stays
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Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other ethnic groups don't apply to you. Forget about work hard, get an education, posses good values. No, for you, we'll alter the rules by lowering the standards and expecting less.' Expect less, get less.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Children
Hard Work
White
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Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Issues
Lying
School
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Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.
Larry Elder / Television Actor
Country
Media
Rights
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