You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11", you know, and playing in the National Football League.
All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.
I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.
An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.
Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.
I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.
I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.
Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.
Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
