Christopher Hitchens

"It is rather a pity, considered from the standpoint of the professional politician or opinion-taker, that nobody knows exactly what "credibility" is, or how one acquires it. "Credibility" doesn't stan…"

"The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee."

"In whatever kind of a "race" life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist."

"The "line of the day" among administration spokesmen, confronted by masses of destitute and terrified refugees and solid reports of the mass execution of civilians, is to say that "we expected this to…"

"My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly represented the "Serbian Socialist Party" as the victim. Many of us are proud of having helped organize …"

"The conservative aptitude for stressing the "individual responsibility" of all parties except themselves."

"...those who say I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker."

"Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."