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" I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?' "
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" War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not. "
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" Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee. "
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" We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this. "
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" The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does. "
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" I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements. "
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" People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' "
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" America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. "
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" Politics won't allow for the truth. "
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" Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001. "
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" After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. "
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" If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization. "
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" Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines. "
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" Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens. "
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" There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election. "
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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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" The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside. "
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" The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living. "
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" The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad. "
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