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

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" I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit. "

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

" Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. "

" There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. "

" Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good. "

" Politics won't allow for the truth. "

" Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money. "

" Harvard is the home of American ideas. "

" The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. "

" All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour. "

" You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages. "

" When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place. "

" You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor. "

" Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers. "

" If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. "

" Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact. "

" I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true. "

" Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. "

" Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats. "

" Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. "

" Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones. "

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

" Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same. "

" The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail. "

" No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession. "

" The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative. "

" There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring. "

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

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