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" Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. "

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" The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. "

" Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland. "

" Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border. "

" I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one. "

" America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief. "

" Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them. "

" Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. "

" Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease. "

" Harvard is the home of American ideas. "

" By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire. "

" Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples. "

" Freedom is for fun. "

" In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. "

" Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative. "

" I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea. "

" Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun. "

" I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion. "

" Satire doesn't effect change. "

" Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself. "

" Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent! "

" Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed. "

" If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas. "

" Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. "

" The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. "

" The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions. "

" The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable. "

" Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English. "

" The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal. "

" Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. "

" All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step. "