My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.

Bill Clinton outshines John Adams in that regard.

[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.

Under the British healthcare system, there is a commission that decides whether or not, based on your age and physical condition, the government should continue to pay for your health.

Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really had the most distinctive writing style, even more than mine, than I've ever seen in this business.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.