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" Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Politicians
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" When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school. "
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" Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot. "
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" Democrats hate success. "
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" Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad? "
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" There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. "
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" Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. "
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" There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. "
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" Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman. "
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" Love can never be fully explained. "
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" Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies. "
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" Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. "
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" I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius. "
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" The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out. "
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" I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid. "
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" Freedom is for fun. "
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" 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. "
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" Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer. "
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" People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth. "
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" Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. "
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Baby
" People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation. "
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" Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could. "
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" There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives. "
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" America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are. "
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" Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else. "
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" 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. "
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" If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.' "
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" Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000. "
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" I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies. "
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" Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America. "
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