The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.

Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.