I'm not much of an economic conservative, and I'm not conservative at all on foreign policy.

Certain Arabs love Dubai because it's not at all like where they live. Certain others hate it for the same reason. When you hear an Osama bin Laden sympathizer rant about the decadence and hypocrisy of the Arab ruling class, you can be certain he's picturing a nightclub in Dubai.

The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.

Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?

I very much like Canada, the adults are talking stance.

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.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.

If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.

Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.

Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice, but you don't take him seriously. That is Canada.

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.

We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities.

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.

I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.

I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.