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" Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border. "

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

" If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home. "

" Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks. "

" To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor. "

" All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don't believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax. "

" Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. "

" Harvard is the home of American ideas. "

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

" I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. "

" Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living. "

" The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows. "

" We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite. "

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

" Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues. "

" Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too. "

" Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same. "

" Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman. "

" America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays. "

" There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats. "

" The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it. "

" Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do. "

" People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation. "

" The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable. "

" Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world. "

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

" Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent! "

" The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative. "

" America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable. "

" There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list. "

" You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. "