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" Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. "

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" There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick. "

" Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free. "

" The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English. "

" I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal. "

" Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease. "

" More modern poetry is written than read. "

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

" Liberals consider people to be nuisances. "

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

" The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it. "

" I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense. "

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

" Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. "

" Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid. "

" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "

" Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so. "

" In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. "

" The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help. "

" Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt. "

" Writing is agony. I hate it. "

" The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war. "

" My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls. "

" If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas. "

" Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad. "

" America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased. "

" America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are. "

" Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments. "