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" I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger. "

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" The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage. "

" I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived. "

" It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video. "

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

" The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it. "

" For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are. "

" Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's. "

" The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid. "

" Liberals consider people to be nuisances. "

" Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world. "

" I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words. "

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

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" A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall. "

" Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe. "

" There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. "

" I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. "

" The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known. "

" Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life. "

" 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. "

" Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. "

" You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. "

" Democrats hate Democrats most of all. "

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

" Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. "

" The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. "

" Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace. "