Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

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."

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

What makes it possible for politicians to do so many things that are economically counterproductive is that neither the public nor the media know enough of the basics to understand what's wrong with what they're saying.

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.