215 Quotes by Mark Steyn

It’s not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ’s Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

Barack Obama is a symptom rather than the problem. He didn’t declare himself president; America chose him.

Incidentally, over half the illegal population supposedly came to America after September 11, 2001.95 That’s to say, they broke into a country on Code Orange alert. Odd that.

The famous United Nations statistic from a 2002 report – more books are translated into Spanish in a single year than have been translated into Arabic in the last thousand – suggests at the very minimum an extraordinarily closed world.

I’m opposed to the notion of official ideology – not just fascism, Communism, Baathism, but the fluffier ones, too, like ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘climate change’ and ‘marriage equality.’ Because the more topics you rule out of discussion – immigration, Islam, ‘gender fluidity’ – the more you delegitimize the political system.

Once you accept you’re a child in the government nursery, why shouldn’t Nanny tell you what to do?

Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

Once a fellow’s enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn’t give a hoot about the general societal interest; he’s got his, and if it’s going to bankrupt the state of a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he’s dead, it’s fine by him.