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" Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market. "

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" In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. "

" When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side. "

" Politics is the one field you don't age out of. "

" Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war. "

" America is a meritocracy. "

" Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization. "

" Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. "

" Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. "

" A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre. "

" Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. "

" I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea. "

" Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it. "

" Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics. "

" The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay. "

" I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older. "

" The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. "

" To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal. "

" Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it. "

" Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another. "

" Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up. "

" Democrats hate success. "

" New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say. "

" After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States. "

" The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect. "

" The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt. "

" Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire. "

" The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. "

" The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics. "

" The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside. "

" Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. "