We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
BEN STEINThe poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
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I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’
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My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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