Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson High School. But by the time the [book-length] high-school yearbook came around, he didn't want to be involved.

The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.