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" Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters. "

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

" Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx. "

" No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house. "

" The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness. "

" My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls. "

" Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it. "

" The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down. "

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

" You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. "

" War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not. "

" Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly. "

" 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 one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it. "

" Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information. "

" Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. "

" As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone. "

" I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger. "

" I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one. "

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

" Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter. "

" Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe. "

" The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats. "

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

" When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money. "

" I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand. "

" 'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama. "

" Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree. "

" As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children. "

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

" Harvard is the home of American ideas. "