To say that 'wealth in America is so unfairly distributed in America,' as Ronald Dworkin does, is grossly misleading when most wealth in the United States is not distributed: at all. People create it, earn it, save it, and spend it.

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend too much on advertising - and demanding that the government pass laws based on their ignorance.

When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.