Quote

Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

Cal Thomas

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Cal Thomas
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
Columnist
Journalist
Radio Personality
Washington
District of Columbia
John Calvin Thomas
People
Gains
Career
Careers
Personal
Politics
Suffering
Shortage
Character
Suffers
Country
Gain

More quotes by Cal Thomas

Image
So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.
Cal Thomas
Image
The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.
Cal Thomas
Image
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
Cal Thomas
Image
It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.
Cal Thomas
Image
Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.
Cal Thomas
Image
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Cal Thomas
Image
People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
Cal Thomas
Image
In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.
Cal Thomas
Image
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
Cal Thomas
Image
Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
Cal Thomas
Image
No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the state's perspective on subjects from sex to history and biology.
Cal Thomas
Image
As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
Cal Thomas
Image
We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.
Cal Thomas
Image
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Cal Thomas
Image
As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.
Cal Thomas
Image
Democrats' desperate attempt to focus on campaign finance reform instead of laws that may have been broken by the Clinton-Gore campaign is like Mike Tyson demanding a reform in boxing regulations after biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.
Cal Thomas
Image
Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.
Cal Thomas
Image
Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
Cal Thomas
Image
But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.
Cal Thomas
Image
Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.
Cal Thomas