Every generation finds the drug it needs.

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

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

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."