- The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
- Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
- Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
- A Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged.
- [commenting on South Africa's apartheid policy] The world is built on discrimination of the most horrible kind. The problem with South Africans is they admit it.
- On classic economist Adam Smith: "His importance was not just to economics, it was the connection of morality to economics. That was his true genius."
- "Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit".
- The less we understand the economy, the better it does.
- Economics is forever telling us to leave people alone. But in modern democracies an especially potent way to acquire power is to increase regulation of all kinds.
- I had seen what Saddam Hussein did to Kuwait. I was in favour of the war [in 2003]. But I do remember saying to a friend of mine, 'Don't you think this is all being thought out by people who are smarter than we are?' Apparently it wasn't.
- On Hillary Clinton: "She's just one of those glossy, nosy, do-gooder types. She's too ambitious to be dangerous."
- On Barack Obama: "He's a charming and intelligent man, but he was a very ordinary Cook County Democratic machine politician. It was not a very pretty bunch."
- What a complete economic and political mess Britain had got into when Margaret Thatcher took over. The whole country needed a good spanking. Thatcher was good for Britain not because she was that good herself, but because Britain had got so bad. New York was the same god-damned mess before Rudy Giuliani became mayor. But not all problems can be solved by being tough. As we have seen in Iraq.
- Liberals have invented whole college majors -- psychology, sociology, women's studies -- to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.
- No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal.
- Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.
- When people say they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.
- Imagine of all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stonewashed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on library shelves. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.
- There's an American saying: "Anyone can become president". And in the 2016 election we've been trying to prove it.
- If it worked, it would not be Government. Young, bright, capable, go-getting people have little need of politics.
- Americans did not come to America to be Limey Poofters...
- Peoples who hate each other often seem to be fond of History.
- Daytime TV is awful, but then if you're watching TV in the Daytime your LIFE is probably awful.
- The Baby Boom: How it got that way, and it wasn't my fault, and I'll never do it again.
- Have a few kids and you realize how Wars start.
- We should be careful when politicizing disease.
- Why would we have Crime on Haiti?" said Du Marcais. "We have the Police and the Army to do that for us!
- I assumed she was a call-girl. Worse, she worked in Real Estate.
- Saigon was full of Veterans shocked that their girlfriends had turned 40.
- The mess left by people getting rich.
- [endorsing Hillary Clinton for President in 2016] It's the second worst thing that can happen to this country. But she's way behind in second place. I mean, she's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters.
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