Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
P. J. O'ROURKEIt’s better to make fun of yourself because you’ve always got someone around to make fun of, and they can’t sue you.
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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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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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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.
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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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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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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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