One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

I think in the [Bill] Clinton era, if people hadn't been spending vast amounts of time attacking Clinton, they would have found that they had essentially the same problems as they do now.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

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

I'm really tired of virtue.