Mark Steyn Quotes

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.

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

The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.

Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

When the family dies, the nation follows.

Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.

Big government makes small citizens.

For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

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