Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.