P. J. O'Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.