Quotes by Larry Elder

About Larry Elder:

Laurence Allen is an American lawyer, writer and radio and television personality who calls himself the "Sage of South Central," a district of Los Angeles, California. His radio program The Larry Elder Show formerly aired weekdays 3 pm on talk radio 790 KABC in Los Angeles. His show began September 27, 2010; it was previously heard on the same station weekdays from 3 to 7 pm from 1994 to 2008 and was syndicated on ABC Radio Networks from 2002 to 2007 and locally on KABC radio in the Los Angeles Metro area from 2009 to 2014. On December 2014, KABC radio did not renew his contract. From December 2014 to present he has been running a live show on the internet on his podcast and then on CRN Channel 1 from 12 PM to 3 PM PST. On July 16, 2015, Larry Elder announced on local radio station KRLA (The Answer 870) Glendale, CA that he will be back on the air on August 2015 from 9 PM to 11 PM PST.
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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.

Larry Elder

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

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According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

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Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

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Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

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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.

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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

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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 man was tired. He was tired.

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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences o...

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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

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Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

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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.

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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameLarry Elder
  • Descriptionradio and television personality, political commentator
  • BornApril 27, 1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionRadio Host; Lawyer