Mark Steyn Quotes

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• If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming…
• Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw?…
• If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year…
• Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?
• Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.
• We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their…
• The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
• Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make…
• 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…
• Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led…
• Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from…
• The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into…
• For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't…
• 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 League,…
• But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for…
• What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the…
• We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of…
• In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes…
• Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner,…
• Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

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