Occupation: Satirist Birth: November 14, 1947
A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it..
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress….
Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth..
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes..
Imagine if 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, woul….
Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross nat….
The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand.….
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from ….
Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated..
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs..
The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be di….
When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan..
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders..
It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling w….
There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed.... Trouble doesn't come from Slo….
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper..
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are ….
Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the h….
The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too..
The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, ta….
I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your fami….