The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.