Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.

I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.