215 Quotes by Mark Steyn

Big Government depends on going around the country stirring up apathy – creating the sense that problems are so big, so complex, so intractable that even attempting to think about them for yourself gives you such a splitting headache it’s easier to shrug and accept as given the proposition that only government can deal with them.

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people’s pockets but to put more responsibility in people’s pockets.

Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town hall meeting in Tehran. That’s telling ’em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they’d call her bluff.

One reason why the developed world has a difficult job grappling with the Islamist threat is that it doesn’t take religion seriously. It condescends to it. In Europe’s wholly secularized environment, the enduring religiosity of America is not just odd, but primitive.

Bisexuality is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us – straight or gay – operate a first-past-the-post system.

When you’re taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there’s nothing left to tax.

The past is another country, but the Seventies is another planet.

The Democrats smell blood and don’t want to be told that it’s their own.

The free world is shuffling into a psychological bondage whose chains are mostly of our own making.