There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

Apparently Bolivia is the key source of lithium in the world. So we're gonna trade the Saudis for the Bolivians.

Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who's out in front of nobody? Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

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

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.