Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People who wanted to do this kind of stuff could suddenly make $100,000 in Hollywood right out of college.

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.