Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
P. J. O'ROURKEGlobalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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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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Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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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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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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