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.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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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 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 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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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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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being ‘hegemonistic’, of engaging in ‘unilateralism’, of behaving as if we’re the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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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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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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