“If we treated politics like more of a profession, like it should be, w...” — Stephen J. Dubner Quote

If we treated politics like more of a profession, like it should be, we would all be a lot better off.

If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved.

The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or redefine - ourselves.

Deflategate. I mean it's kind of idiotic in one way. On the other hand, look how totally obsessed we are with the fact that the New England Patriots may have taken, I don't know, a half-pound or a pound square inch of air pressure out of the footballs. We love it.

We need to make sure that people are progressively better off in work than they would be on welfare.

Issues like obesity do, as you well know, have a knock-on effect to diabetes. So we all are better off if we invest early in prevention.

That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.

I'm better off when I take a little break from racing now and then.

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.