Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.

Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.

I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.