When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

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.

I had really not been out of the United States much, except for Mexico. I thought, "Jesus Christ, this [Russia] is like a whole new world." Instead of writing Michael Jackson one-glove jokes, all I had to do was go to these weird places and keep my eyes and ears open.