I Don't Go Around Trying To Stir

I Always Keep A Firewall Between My Own Travails And My Perception Of Public-policy Issues; Otherwise I Would Retain No Credibility As A Commentator.

I May Have Made A Mistake In Renouncing My Canadian Citizenship, Which I Have Never Ceased To Promise To Try To Regain.

Guerrilla Wars, And Even More So Terrorist Assaults, Are Conducted Only By Forces With Insufficient Strength To Carry Out A Real War.

We Must Express The View, Based On Our Empirical Observations, That A Substantial Number Of Journalists Are Ignorant, Lazy, Opinionated, And Intellectually Dishonest. The Profession Is Heavily Cluttered With Aged Hacks Toiling Through A Miasma Of Mounting Decrepitude And Often Alcoholism, And Even More So With Arrogant And Abrasive Youngsters Who Substitute 'commitment' For Insight. The Product Of Their Impassioned Intervention In Public Affairs Is More Often Confusion Than Lucidity.

I Don't Go Around Trying To Stir Up Foreign Wars.