The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.