"It’s my job to see that the chips stay up."

Bernard Woolley in "Yes Minister" when asked by Hacker whose side he would be on when the chips were down

"Looking back some folks might say I was successful/ That I shook the hands of kings and presidents/ And I surely think they’ll say I did my duty/ And struck a blow for love and common sense."

"Every Place I’ve Ever Been” on the album Guess Things Happen That Way by Cowboy Jack Clement

In my latest Looniepolitics column I use recent NDP fundraising emails to illustrate just what's wrong with the political class's vision of the good life.

In my latest National Post column I defend the superhero fantasy scifi film Guardians of the Galaxy 2 against charges of racist sexist blah blah blah.

"Yes-men are good for the ego but not for the soul. They have no effect on your thinking, and you can hardly expect them to impress your opponents."

David Gelernter in National Review March 9, 1998

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody. It saves so much trouble."

Mrs. Mallowe in Rudyard Kipling, "A Second-Rate Woman" in Under the Deodars
 

"We do care far more about all sorts of things and people than is at all rational if this life is all…"

James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty Equality Fraternity

"A penny saved is a little piece of copper that stays in your pocket for 10 hours."

From a list of maxims in Globe and Mail Nov. 29, 2001 sent by Nicola Gilman’s Grade 3 class at Calgary Montessori School