Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's failures. The Hoa suffered the same fate as the pizza parlour in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing except at the hands of the world's fourth largest army instead of a small, petulant movie director.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.

We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.

Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.