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

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" Stupid is a great force in human affairs. "

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" Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over. "

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

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" Political leaders are expert at saying nothing. "

" Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom. "

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" The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point. "

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

" Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so. "

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" I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper. "

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" America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable. "

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