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.

Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

I bought my first house because of Animal House.

We're gonna be in a world of hurt if we don't get it fixed, because there's going to be billions of people out there - they're hungry, they're mad. One thing that they can get their hands on is guns.

A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.