“David Frost was expected to sink without a trace, but instead he rose without a trace.”

Kitty Muggeridge, quoted by William F. Buckley Jr. in National Review June 14, 1999

“It would be no sort of a life if we felt entirely comfortable in it.”

P.J. Kavanaugh, quoted in The Economist May 5, 1990

In my latest National Post column I say the self-satisfied tone at the latest global warming alarmist confab in chilly Glasgow is a sign of how detached they are from economic as well as scientific reality.

“But as Harry Truman used to say, the only thing new is the history we have not read yet.”

Hadley Arkes in National Review August 3, 1992

“It is only the fetish of some economists (e.g., Hirshleifer, 1985) that rejects the idea that one person’s self-interest cannot include the welfare of others.”

W.T. Stanbury in Walter Block and George Lerner, eds., Breaking the Shackles: Deregulating Canadian Industry

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the big issue with making Mélanie Joly Canada’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs isn’t that she lacks relevant experience or gravitas, it’s that it doesn’t matter.

“A neurosis is a secret you don’t know you’re keeping.”

Kenneth Tynan quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail February 4, 2005

“The haves and the have-nots can be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.”

D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”