A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

If a word means everything, then in means nothing.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.