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" My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. "
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" Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. "
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" I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning. "
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" Everybody is xenophobic to an extent. "
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" Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress. "
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" I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works. "
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" I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. "
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" Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters. "
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" Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could. "
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" America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief. "
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" Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.' "
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" Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left. "
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" We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there. "
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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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" Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues. "
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" 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. "
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" In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old. "
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" I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm. "
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" I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal. "
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" 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. "
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" There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. "
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" 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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" By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire. "
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" President Obama has contempt for real money. "
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" Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. "
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" Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself. "
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" I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it. "
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" Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall. "
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