The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.