I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.