The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that."

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.

The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.

I'm 61 years old. I'm not that fearful of the future, period. I'm not going to see that much of it.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke