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.
P. J. O'ROURKEI like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
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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 problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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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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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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