Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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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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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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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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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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