The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

Pollution is a problem, and there's the whole problem of the spoiling of the commons, but we've addressed the pollution problem on a variety of different levels in a variety of ways, and it's worked pretty well.

You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.