You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.