This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.