Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
P. J. O'ROURKEWhy do elites hate the poor? It’s xenophobia. They don’t know any poor people – except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don’t speak English.
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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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I 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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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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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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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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