Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
P. J. O'ROURKEMaybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
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The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
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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.
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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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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.
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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, ‘But doesn’t it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn’t it be set in New Guinea?’ And you say, ‘But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.’
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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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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.
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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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