There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
P. J. O'ROURKEI come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.
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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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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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The baby boomers’ politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there’s been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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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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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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