Lou Dobbs Quotes

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.

When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely conclude that there is something wrong in society - so when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

Immense evils ... afflict communities not because they are incurable, but because they are tolerated, and great good remains often unaccomplished merely because it is not attempted.

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

In some cases, newlyweds want so badly for things to be perfect that they ignore warning signs, both in themselves and each other.

A lot of problems in the society exist because we don't talk about it.

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.