Walter E. Williams Quotes About Politicians

• La mayoría de los grandes problemas a los que nos enfrentamos son causados por políticos que crean soluciones a problemas que ellos mismos crearon en primer lugar.

  Walter E. Williams

  Crear, Caras, Primeros

• Para mantener a los estadounidenses mal educados, mal informados y constitucionalmente ignorantes, el sistema educativo ha sido el principal y más fiel socio de los políticos. En este sentido, la educación estadounidense puede considerarse un éxito.

  Walter E. Williams

  Fiel, Ignorante, Libertad

• El miedo al calentamiento global ha hecho las delicias de políticos y otros que quieren controlar nuestras vidas. Al fin y al cabo, sólo la imaginación limita el tipo de leyes y restricciones que pueden redactarse en nombre de la salvación del planeta.

  Walter E. Williams

  Nombres, Derecho, Imaginación

• Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

  Walter E. Williams

  Littles, Politician, Economy

• The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign finance reform would be irrelevant. After all, why would anyone spend money for influence, access, favors and tribute if the only thing that politicians do is to live up to their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution?

  Walter E. Williams

  Issues, Reform, Would Be

• The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems by raising taxes on the rich. If Americans were more informed, such a message would be insulting to our intelligence. There are not enough rich people to satisfy Congress' appetite.

  Walter E. Williams

  Media, People, Insulting

• Puede apostar el dinero del alquiler a que cualquier cosa que hagan los políticos acabará perjudicando a los consumidores. ... La ignorancia económica es para los políticos lo que las manos ociosas son para el diablo. Ambos proporcionan el taller para la creación del mal.

  Walter E. Williams

  Ignorance, Hands, Evil

• Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.

  Walter E. Williams

  Liberty, Politician

• In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing that politicians can do for the economy is to stop doing bad. In part, this can be achieved through reducing taxes and economic regulation, and staying out of our lives.

  Walter E. Williams

  President, Regulation, Politician

• Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

  Walter E. Williams

  Politician, Economic, Illiteracy

  "The State Against Blacks" by Jason L. Riley, www.wsj.com. January 22, 2011.

• Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.

  Walter E. Williams

  Simple, Tariffs, Blame

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.209, Hoover Press

• For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Betrayal, Struggle, Rights

• Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. ... The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Credit, Debt

• In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.

  Walter E. Williams

  Army, Law, Greed

  "Economics for the Citizen (Part 9)". capitalismmagazine.com. January 20, 2005.

• ...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and bureaucrats know we will not tolerate further encroachment on our God-given rights to liberty.

  Walter E. Williams

  Rights, Liberty, Care

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