If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
P. J. O'ROURKEIf you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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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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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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When you’re a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, ‘Gee, I wouldn’t want to be doing that.’ They’re on your side.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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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.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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