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" People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively. "

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

" There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself. "

" The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal. "

" The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around. "

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

" Satire doesn't effect change. "

" New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say. "

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

" We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. "

" Hubris is one of the great renewable resources. "

" A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?' "

" I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm. "

" Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire. "

" 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.' "

" Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool. "

" Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him. "

" Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. "

" The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it. "

" I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason. "

" My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. "

" The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay. "

" A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person. "

" Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box. "

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

" Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification. "

" There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats. "

" The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich. "

" Politics is the one field you don't age out of. "

" No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism. "

" Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. "