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" Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step. "

P. J. O'Rourke

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" I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301. "

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

" What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text. "

" Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.' "

" Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less. "

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" People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth. "

" All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see. "

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" Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities. "

" Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic. "

" Liberals consider people to be nuisances. "

" Ending wars is very simple if you surrender. "

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

" Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt. "

" I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again. "

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

" Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments. "

" Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force. "

" Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another. "

" We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. "

" Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him. "

" After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States. "

" 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. "

" I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements. "

" Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.' "

" The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it. "

" Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. "

" Like it or not, I've come to appreciate soccer. Any kid can play, which fits with the inclusive agenda of progressive schools. Although the corollary to 'any kid can play' is that every kid must play because there is an iron grip to the warm hug of progressive inclusionism. "