215 Quotes by Mark Steyn

The cradle-to-grave welfare society enfeebles the citizenry to such a degree you can never generate enough money.

Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever reminds us that “in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis”.

The most consequential act of state ownership in the twentieth-century western world was not the nationalization of airlines or the nationalization of railways or the nationalization of health care, but the nationalization of the family.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you’ve spent it and no longer have one?

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it’s hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it’s easier to close it down?

There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn’t been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite – via various appointed bodies – decide what the public’s interest is for them.

Only in America does ‘health’ ‘care’ ‘reform’ begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.

For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they’ll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.