Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women from exploitation. Businesses can be started, homes built, communities formed, religions practiced, educations pursued. But liberals aren't very interested in such real and material freedoms. They have a more innocent - not to say toddlerlike - idea of freedom. Liberals want the freedom to put anything into their mouths, to say bad words and to expose their private parts in art museums.

I'm 61 years old. I'm not that fearful of the future, period. I'm not going to see that much of it.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

First and foremost: Feed people.

Mike Kelly [from The Atlantic] called me up and said he could pay me less money.