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" College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions. "

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" Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. "

" 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. "

" America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. "

" Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen. "

" The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail. "

" The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage. "

" The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. "

" I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts. "

" Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less. "

" 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. "

" I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to. "

" There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. "

" The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. "

" Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts. "

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

" Never fight an inanimate object. "

" When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches. "

" By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire. "

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

" Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx. "

" I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words. "

" You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. "

" What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. "

" Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either. "

" I'm really tired of virtue. "

" Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference. "

" The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs. "

" No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession. "

" In midlife, we're as dumb as we get. "

" 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. "