The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

A woman should dress to attract attention. To attract the most attention, a woman should be either nude, or wearing something as expensive as getting her nude is going to be.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

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.