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" Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. "

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" The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows. "

P. J. O'Rourke

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You

Retirement

" There might be some serious fun in politics. "

" What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics. "

" We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say. "

" We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections. "

" The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. "

Christopher Hitchens

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

" A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics. "

Marianne Williamson

" Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. "

" Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. "

" Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand. "

" A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. "

" You have to remember what a super PAC is: a bunch of wealthy donors who want to send a message traditionally other campaigns don't do. This is the problem with the dark money that's involved in politics right now. "

" There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees. "

" Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America. "

P. J. O'Rourke

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America

" I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. "

" You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. "

" They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. "

" The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people. "

" Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help? "

" In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Politics

Almost

" I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others. "

" Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. "

" I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters. "

" All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. "

" Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Walking

Politics

" Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department. "

" Voting is a civic sacrament. "

" The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. "

" Term limits aren't enough. We need jail. "