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" Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress. "

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

" There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have. "

" We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this. "

" When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money. "

" The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around. "

" People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' "

" People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth. "

" You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor. "

" I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. "

" 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. "

" Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly. "

" In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.' "

" The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does. "

" Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros. "

" I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.' "

" Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee. "

" Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. "

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

" Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware. "

" I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301. "

" A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too. "

" The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it. "

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

" A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking. "

" Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad? "

" Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter. "

" The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes. "

" Democrats hate Democrats most of all. "

" Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. "

" The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. "