Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A ...world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those ...who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "charac...ter issues." Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Quayle was a twink. He got all the way through the sixties without dying from an overdose, being institutionalized by his parents ...or getting arrested for nude violation of the Mann Act on a motorcycle. At least he was a draft-dodger--although Dan timidly joined the National Guard instead of bravely going to his physical in panty hose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set ever...yone gearing up for World War II½. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes--...thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things--war and hunger and date ra...pe--liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow ol...d. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We spend all day broadcasting on the radio and TV telling people back home what's happening here. And we learn what's happening he...re by spending all day monitoring the radio and TV broadcasts from back home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »