Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.