“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”

“The good thing about being a pessimist is that I'm either always right, or pleasantly surprised.”

“There is an elegant memorial in Washington to Jefferson, but none to Hamilton. However, if you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.”

“Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce — yes, announce — that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by . . . liberals.”

“Avoidance of lunacy is an insufficient agenda."-George Will on Ronald Reagan, 3-6-1987”

“In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.”

“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”