America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being ‘hegemonistic’, of engaging in ‘unilateralism’, of behaving as if we’re the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
P. J. O'ROURKEI 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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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.
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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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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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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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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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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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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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