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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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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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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By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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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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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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When you’re a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, ‘Gee, I wouldn’t want to be doing that.’ They’re on your side.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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