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

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" The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee. "

" You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live. "

" There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself. "

" I am unboreable in the great outdoors. "

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

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

" Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. "

" There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring. "

" Democrats hate success. "

" My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family. "

" I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one. "

" Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen. "

" Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters. "

" There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. "

" 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. "

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

" In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old. "

" The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains. "

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

" Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros. "

" There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election. "

" I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion. "

" Space has always been confusing to politics. "

" I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.' "

" Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats. "

" People love to be told what they know already. "