Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
P. J. O'ROURKEWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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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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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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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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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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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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