“Kind of a shame kids have to grow up into people.”
Davy Crockett (played by John Wayne) in The Alamo
“Men are the same in all ages and in all countries. A few prejudices and customs excepted, the same passions lurk in our hearts at all times.”
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
“Oratory that would make Churchill blush”
A "he's an extraordinary man" insult invented by me May 18, 2005, on watching then Independent, formerly Labour MP George Galloway’s appearance before a U.S. Senate committee
In my latest National Post column I say if the press take a “UFO expert” seriously we contribute to a general atmosphere of idiocy in public discussion.