The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

Never fight an inanimate object.

Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.