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" When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side. "

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" I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true. "

" Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative. "

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

" Politics won't allow for the truth. "

" Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. "

" You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. "

" Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. "

" Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed. "

" 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. "

" Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue. "

" Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. "

" In midlife, we're as dumb as we get. "

" 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. "

" Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.' "

" Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. "

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

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

" Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives. "

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

" Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past. "

" America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief. "

" Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up. "

" 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. "

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

" A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver. "

" I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works. "

" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "

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