[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.

If the dollar weakens, then presumably all the things that we make in the United States - Buicks, for instance - can be sold cheap all over the world, and everyone will be buying our goods, and we'll get all sorts of yen-denominated, or yuan-denominated, or euro-denominated securities, and then everybody else will be worried.

Commies love concrete.

It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

Dating is the social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion.