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" No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism. "

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" I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a little too much. "

" To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal. "

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

" What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention. "

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

" 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. "

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" Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. "

" 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. "

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

" Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy. "

" Philosophy was once considered science. "

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" There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. "

" Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere. "

" When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital. "

" Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. "

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

" Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human. "

" Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. "

" We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. "

" The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics. "

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" 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?' "

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

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