Jason Riley Quotes

#1. Moreover, in those instances where the political success of a minority group has come first, the result has often been slower socioeconomic progress.

Jason L. Riley

#2. what does it take to just be kind? They could see she was melting away like a snowman in front of their faces, but they couldn't do it. It was brutal.

Randy L. Schmidt

#3. Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#4. Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola ...

John Ratzenberger

#5. I am 10 times smarter than everyone else in this game. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Brett Hull

#6. Perceptions of black criminality aren't likely to change until black behavior changes. Rather than address that challenge, however, too many liberal policy makers change the subject. Instead of talking about black behavior, they want to talk about racism or poverty or unemployment or gun control.

Jason L. Riley

#7. Instead, as a consequence of racial gerrymandering, "elections nationwide have become more or less permanently structured to discourage politically adventuresome African American candidates who aspire to win political office in majority-white settings.

Jason L. Riley

#8. I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

Gene Wilder

#9. Racing, for me and for most people that watch it, it's about personalities.

Scott Dixon

#10. Benjamin's expression turned regretful. "You're right. I'm sorry." Jason couldn't believe his ears. His younger brother was actually apologizing for something. "I appreciate that," Jason finally said.

John O'Riley

#11. One reason that returns on black political investment have been so meager is that black politicians often act in ways that benefit themselves but don't represent the concerns of most blacks.

Jason L. Riley

#12. Ty is like... a ninja on crack.

Abigail Roux

#13. Ideas of self, ideas of world and family and nation, articles of scientific or religious faith, your creeds and currencies: one by one, the beloved structures falling.

Alan Moore

#14. History, in other words, provides little indication, let alone assurance, that political success is a prerequisite of upward mobility.

Jason L. Riley

#15. And although black civil rights leaders like to point to a supposedly racist criminal justice system to explain why our prisons house so many black men, it's been obvious for decades that the real culprit is black behavior - behavior too often celebrated in black culture.

Jason L. Riley

#16. Keep the immigrants. Deport the Columbia faculty

Jason L. Riley

#17. The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.

Andrew Graham-Dixon

#18. The black homicide rate is seven times that of whites, and the George Zimmermans of the world are not the reason. Some 90 percent of black murder victims are killed by other blacks. Why should we care more about black criminals than their black victims?

Jason L. Riley

#19. We should not only attend church but must have a ministry in the church as well

Sunday Adelaja

#20. Whatever else the election of Barack Obama represented - some have called it redemption, others have called it the triumph of style over substance - it was the ultimate victory for people who believe that black political gains are of utmost importance to black progress in America.

Jason L. Riley