The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.
Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.
A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
