There's nothing scarier than a reckless prosecutor.
— Tucker Carlson
In addition to all the good things it's done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides.
The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.
All standards are double standards.
In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from 'The New Yorker,' 'New York Times' editorial page, or 'The Washington Post.'
No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all.
By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.
The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she will bear a child with a handicap can plan to deliver in a hospital equipped for risky births. And many couples prefer the opportunity to prepare psychologically for the work of raising a disabled child.
Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.
It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy scripture.
Carrying an automatic weapon in a Third World country beyond the easy reach of higher authority? The job description is like a bug light to borderline personalities.
I'm not uncomfortable around guns - I've hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.
Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.
I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.
The public understands that the government is broke, but many still don't want to cut programs they enjoy or depend on.
People like entitlements. That's why we spend so much on them.
He'll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don't recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him.
It's normal for people, especially politicians, to expect rewards in return for favors.
People with conservative temperaments don't become fighter pilots or presidential candidates - they're all that way to some extent.
Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it's making a generalization - a negative one - based on skin color.
You need, in order to run a country as diverse as ours, a prominently recognized news source.
What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.
Certain Arabs love Dubai because it's not at all like where they live. Certain others hate it for the same reason. When you hear an Osama bin Laden sympathizer rant about the decadence and hypocrisy of the Arab ruling class, you can be certain he's picturing a nightclub in Dubai.
I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12.
It is one of the triumphs of modern society that the life of the average person with Down Syndrome has become strikingly normal.
When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.
As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.
Apart from its dangers, much of Iraq isn't very interesting to look at. The landscape is flat and dun colored. The dirt just beyond the highway is littered with hunks of twisted and mangled metal, some of it the detritus of wars, some of it just unclaimed junk. The countryside looks muddy and broken.
Sharpton is a smart guy. In some ways, he's a good guy. But a moral arbiter? Let's not get carried away.
The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.
America is secure because we can afford the strongest military in history. Once the U.S. economy is no longer dominant, we are no longer safe, and the world becomes chaotic.
Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?
There's no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.
I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.
There actually have never been many shows as equally balanced as 'Crossfire.'
I like Sarah Palin.
Boys and girls are not the same.
If you think your average Trump voter in Ohio hates Washington, you should see what Washington thinks about the Trump voter in Ohio.
I watched Bill O'Reilly for years.
People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.
Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.
Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.
The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.
In the Nation of Islam, Akbar Muhammad is a big deal.
Journalists typically don't carry weapons, even in war zones, for fear of compromising their status as neutral observers. If you're armed, the theory goes, other armed people will consider you a target.
Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.
Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary.
If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.
Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too.
In politics, reform never comes before crisis.
