Mark Steyn's Passing Parade Quotes

“The past is another country, but the Seventies is another planet.”
― Mark Steyn, Mark Steyn's Passing Parade

“Nixon’s avowedly ‘square’ White House was, in fact, less cheesy than Clinton’s Lite FM programming and more confident than the Kennedys’ culturally craven collect-the-set approach.”
― Mark Steyn, Mark Steyn's Passing Parade

“He loved Minnesota’s flora and fauna and seemed ill-suited as either a fawner or floorer, a”
― Mark Steyn, Mark Steyn's Passing Parade: Obituaries & Appreciations expanded edition

“I was once on a BBC current-affairs show and the sneering host produced a Solzhenitsyn quote designed to demonstrate that my view of American pre-eminence was all hooey, and rounded it out with a snide “I take it you’ve heard of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?” “Oh, sure,” I said. “We have the same piano tuner.” Which we did.”
― Mark Steyn, Mark Steyn's Passing Parade: Obituaries & Appreciations expanded edition

“With Clinton, of course, the term “world stage” was peculiarly literal: he had a fading vaudevillian’s desperation to be loved.”
― Mark Steyn, Mark Steyn's Passing Parade: Obituaries & Appreciations expanded edition