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.
P. J. O'ROURKEEverybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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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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I’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love 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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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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It’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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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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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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I believe in God. God created the world.
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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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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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