I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.
P. J. O'ROURKEI believe in God. God created the world.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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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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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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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.
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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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You can’t destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America’s elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you’re doing us a favor.
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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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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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Never fight an inanimate object.
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