A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
P. J. O'ROURKESome people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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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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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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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 proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
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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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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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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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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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I 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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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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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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I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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