Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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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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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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If 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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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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Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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