The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
P. J. O'ROURKEPeople are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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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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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It’s going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it’s the Democrats.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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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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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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