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I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

P. J. O'Rourke

The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Average Beauty Citizen Democracy Lead Random Unremarkable
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Great Hubris One Renewable Resource
The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Brain Community Enthusiastic Immediately Join Minute Somebody Suffer
Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Enough Jail Limit Need Term
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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Difficult Discipline Parent Properly Size
The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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Again Budget Control Government Much Over
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Catch Contemporary Country English Flourish Phrase
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
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Advocate Charity Compulsory Government Merely Politician Virtue
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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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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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Collapse Daily False Industry Journalism Memory Print
As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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Former Live National Sarcasm Seam Probably Writer
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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Attempt Believe Hypocrite Man Moral President Redistribute

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