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" Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent! "
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" Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back. "
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" The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich. "
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" Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened. "
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" Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. "
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" I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one. "
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" Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret. "
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" The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness. "
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" But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. "
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" The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. "
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" Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by dastardly crimes, they cannot bring about good government; let them realize that these methods have not succeeded in any country of the world and are not likely to succeed in India. "
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" When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities. "
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" Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy. "
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" I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting. "
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" When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking. "
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" As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone. "
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" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "
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" The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it. "
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" No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism. "
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