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" In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands. "

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

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

" There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more. "

" You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate. "

" The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last. "

" Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. "

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" I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid. "

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

" I read good. I was an English major. "

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

" My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. "

" We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do. "

" War diminishes both civil and economic rights. "

" Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day. "

" I am unboreable in the great outdoors. "

" Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?' "

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

" I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?' "

" Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. "

" I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger. "

" People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans. "

" You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be. "

" I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory. "

" Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System. "

" War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not. "

" Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out. "

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

" If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters. "

" Term limits aren't enough. We need jail. "