A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

Regulation creates a moral hazard.

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

I don't understand anything about America's culture.

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.

America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.

Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.

Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

More modern poetry is written than read.

Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.