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" I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan. "

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

" I'm a political conservative. "

" The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. "

" Ending wars is very simple if you surrender. "

" I believe in God. God created the world. "

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

" I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics. "

" 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. "

" Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. "

" Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland. "

" A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person. "

" Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force. "

" Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics. "

" I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again. "

" The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. "

" Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative. "

" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "

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

" Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good. "

" Writing is agony. I hate it. "

" Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp. "

" Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory. "

" Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure. "

" I don't watch much television. "

" The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average. "

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

" Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information. "

" If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.' "

" The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. "