The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.

Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'

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.

Politics won't allow for the truth.

Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.

I am unboreable in the great outdoors.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.

The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.

When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.

The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.

I read good. I was an English major.

The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.

When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.

Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.

Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

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 the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

I don't watch much television.

'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.

As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.