America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.

Big government makes small citizens.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.

Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.