64 Quotes by Larry Elder

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children’s lives.

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He’s a tough, tough guy.

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you’re a kid, you don’t realize that.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don’t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts – also known as work.

This battle for ‘common-sense’ gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, ‘gun control’ legislation. Good news – if you’re a crook.

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it’s my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world’s their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons – who knows? In any case, Buffett now believe that government should redistribute the wealth earned by others to those who did not earn it.

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.