It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

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.

The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view.