Dennis Prager Quotes - Page 13

The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

I believe that free money is as addictive as cocaine

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

Leftist big-government policies have been disastrous for black America just as they were in the countries that most Hispanics emigrated from. But like the gambling addict who keeps gambling the more he loses, those addicted to government entitlements keep increasing the size of the government even as their situation worsens.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

You're 'wealthy' if you don't worry

Hillary Clinton wanted to hide what she was doing so that there was no trail

I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

Liberals don't ask 'Does it work?' They ask 'Does it equalize?'

Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being the President of the United States; she has done nothing important that is good

Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.

The Left will destroy what is good to try to make what is perfect. That is the motto of the Left

America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on.

Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples.

Nothing provides the antidote to narcissism, or the environment for the healthy raising of children, or the way for people to take care of one another, as does the marriage of a man and a woman. And while most divorces are terribly sad, divorce itself no more undermines the institution of marriage than car crashes undermine the institution of driving.

There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

If pain were water, the world would drown

The Left corrupts everything it touches

Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?