Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
P. J. O'ROURKEGlobalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
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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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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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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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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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