72 Quotes by Charlie Sykes

There once was a time when employers could be reasonably certain that college graduates had a basic sense of the world and, as a minimum, could write a coherent business letter. That is simply no longer the case, as some academic leaders appear ready to admit.

It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.

The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain.

It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest.

I'm not usually absolutely speechless.

I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.

The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted despite their inability to do college-level work.

Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced it with in loco Big Brother programs of political and cultural re-education.

There was a time when the Republican Party could discuss possible reforms to our gun laws: Ronald Reagan himself endorsed the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban that passed in 1994.