Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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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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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being ‘hegemonistic’, of engaging in ‘unilateralism’, of behaving as if we’re the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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