P. J. O'Rourke

Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.