Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport -- two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner.

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

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

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

Sometimes you need a B-2 bomber and sometimes you need your mother.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer -- a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.