Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

Whereas Rolling Stone, I just never had anything to do with them. I'd stop by the office maybe twice a year.

If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.