The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.

In the wake of Animal House, the stock briefly and quite wrongly shot up. So I love that movie.

The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.

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.

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.