The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“The state has gradually annexed all the responsibilities of adulthood - health care, child care, care of the elderly - to the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way these countries [EU] redefined the relationship between government and citizen into something closer to pusher and addict. And,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“The continent has embraced a spiritual death long before the demographic one. In those seventeen European countries that have fallen into the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China.… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.” — Mark Steyn Copy Share
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“But in practice the lack of belief in divine presence is just as likely to lead to humans avoiding responsibility: if there's nothing other… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“America is now a land that rewards failure--at the personal, corporate and state level. If you reward it, you get more of it. If… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
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… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“You cannot wage a sustained ideological assault on your own civilization without grave consequences. We are approaching the end of the Anglo-American moment, and… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
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… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
![“Somewhere along the way these countries [EU] redefined the relationship between government and citizen into something closer to pusher and addict. And, once you've done that, it's very hard to persuade the addict to cut back his habit. Thus, the general acceptance everywhere but America is that…” quote by Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/557/mark-steyn-1844_choice_somewhere-along-the-way-these-countries_663430.jpg)
