A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

I didn't realize what fun it was [ been a reporter].

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

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

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.