The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.