Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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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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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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I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it’s simply a measurement.
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