My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of...
Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.
I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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.
Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
More modern poetry is written than read.
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a...
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a sh...
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.