Some provocative quotes

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

In welfare, as in most things, we get what we pay for. For more than 30 years, the system paid for non-work and non-marriage, and it achieved massive increases in both.

We've got the best workers in the world!

(9-11) is an American problem. There should have been no worry about having allies. Once the enemy was determined, America should have attacked the guilty. A truly American leader would have told the world, "We're taking these bastards out and you can kiss my red, white and blue ass if you don't like it.

Americans find themselves in the unaccustomed position of being the injured party. But eventually, when they have got a grip on the terrorist threat and return to calmer moments, they are going to have to give intelligent thought to turning their money and freedom to more decent, more responsible purposes. When they have put their flags away, Americans will have to ask if they want to go back to what they were on Sept. 10. They can do a lot better.

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

What the Europeans fear most is that we will do what we have to do alone ("unilaterally") if our friends choose not to help us. What they don't understand is that we have no big brother across the seas to pull our chestnuts out of the fire. A continued communications effort from the administration is fine, but the ugly American is a straw man much too beloved to let go.