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.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.