Mark Steyn Quotes

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

How do you ‘invest in the future’? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That’s what the Government of the United States is doing. It’s spending one-fifth of a billion dollars it doesn’t have every hour of every day of every week – all for your future!

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

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.

The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as ‘workers’ (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.

Those who can do. Those who can’t form a supercommittee.

Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town-hall meeting in Tehran. That’s telling ’em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they’d call her bluff.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him ‘warts and all’, he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

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. China didn’t create Social Security, Medicare. China isn’t spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn’t have.

How ridiculous! You’re going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?