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P. J. O'Rourke

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Endless Foreigner God Lousy Politics Right Wrong
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Agriculture Business Dinner Fertilizer Grant Indian Overall Politics Thanksgiving
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Edit Simply Surrender
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
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Car Chief Device Increase Mechanical Number Particularly
There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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Beyond Business Certain Complexity Fraud Legislation Rule Simply Time
I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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Country Dirty Enough Now Old Over Remember
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Black People Reformer Some Think Voter
The 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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Carry Country Crow Exile Extermination Law Passage Perpetuation Savery
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Best Bought Guy Happen Journalism People Person Popular Thing Wonderful
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Accept Blink Eye Gay Happen Marriage
Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Business Cancer Country Nice Place Show Southern Spread
The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
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Communist Country Economy End Failure Line Long Made People Soviet
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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Better Average Citizen Country French Monkey Smallish
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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Another Brief Death History Impeach National Out President Thousand Worry
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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Always Build Machinery Once One Political Remember Rum
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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Call Him Ignorant Knowledge Licence Man Show Vast Wise

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