215 Quotes by Mark Steyn

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state – one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

Jesse Jackson’s living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture.

A dependence on immigration from very limited and particular sources is not a strength but a weakness.

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it’s bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you’d hate the America they portray, too.

Her Majesty’s government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

How ridiculous! You’re going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?

Modern ‘liberalism’ is strikingly illiberal; the high priests of ‘tolerance’ are increasingly intolerant of even the mildest dissent; and those who profess to ‘celebrate diversity’ coerce ever more ruthlessly a narrow homogeneity.

Contemporary Big Government is like a widget factory that no longer makes widgets but holds sensitivity training sessions all day long.