Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.
— Tucker Carlson
The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.
Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.
I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have.
My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life.
One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality.
You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.
Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully.
Under no circumstances am I going to criticize my family in public.
I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time defending them.
The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.
You can look different but have the same values. That's not diversity; it's conformity.
Pat Buchanan likes to fight. But only on TV.
I don't care what anybody thinks.
I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.
I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.
American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
There's almost nothing that upsets Americans more than the idea that somewhere, somehow, somebody is getting his feelings hurt.
There will always be some who, for whatever reason, find themselves dependent on the charity of others. But when half the population is along for the ride, the system becomes dangerously out of balance. Things fall apart.
I like women.
All that chatter you hear from yuppie parents at the playground about how expensive it is to 'do' bathrooms? It's all true. Every word, and worse.
Maybe I'm flattering myself, but I think my view of humanity has got steadily sunnier since I was 15. I have a higher opinion of politicians, for instance, than I did when I first moved to Washington.
Most of the time, you can beat a woman in an argument.
Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isn't.
Animals shouldn't be mistreated.
I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am.
I'm not much of an economic conservative, and I'm not conservative at all on foreign policy.
I'm so pathetically eager for people to love D.C. It's so sad. It's like I work for the chamber of commerce or something.
Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.
The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.
Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.
There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.
I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.
I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
Limbaugh hosts a radio show. His job is to shock people.
People tend to cherish and take care of the things they pay for and therefore own, countries included. The opposite is also true. When was the last time you changed the oil in a rental car?
I do think - I'm sure I'm the lone voice in saying this - that Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they're lunatics. I think they're evil.
People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for 'sharing,' or 'initiating a dialogue,' or 'taking the time to explain this very important issue.'
People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.
I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.
I'm Christian. I've made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.
You don't criticize your employer.
Intelligence is not a moral category.
You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.
You can learn a lot about Pat Buchanan by talking to his campaign staff, particularly the ones who have quit or been fired.
The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.
Canadians are so easily wounded.
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?
