Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.