There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.

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.

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.