...let's talk about soccer scores. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency and scoreless sports ties are boring.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

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 is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.