Mark Steyn Quotes

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• Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people…
• 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…
• LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
• If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem…
• It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.
• We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.
• In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain…
• Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.
• You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it…
• Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible…
• Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture
• Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the…
• The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.
• Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City,…
• Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some such. Whatever the…
• ...we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational…
• There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging…
• Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in…
• The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.
• The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

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