Occupation: Satirist Birth: November 14, 1947
I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things ha….
Never wear anything that panics the cat..
Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more e….
Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nomin….
Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian p….
There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon..
Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too..
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really….
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine..
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty an….
First and foremost: Feed people..
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to dr….
Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof..
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a mea….
One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point..
The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield..
In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you w….
Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!.
I am a great admirer of women..
The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of ….
Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's s….