America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.