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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.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it’s a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also – to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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Ask Children Clean Cook Down Government Hold Problem Solve
Why 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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Book Elite English Except People Poor Speak Xenophobia
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Country Government Make Mystery People Stop
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
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Advocate Charity Compulsory Government Merely Politician Virtue
When you’re a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, ‘Gee, I wouldn’t want to be doing that.’ They’re on your side.
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Correspondent Do Person Reader Say That Want
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Affair Force Great Human Stupid
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Economic Globalization Marketplace Open Simply World
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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Brain Community Enthusiastic Immediately Join Minute Somebody Suffer
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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Dangerm Charm Meet Personal Politician Rare
I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Country Favor Invasion Mush
Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Fact Failure Forces Huge Industrial People Revolution
Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.
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Country Free Nokia Phone Plywood Rich
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
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Administration Attack Country Gun Hell Nut President Religious
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Average Beauty Citizen Democracy Lead Random Unremarkable
Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Business Cancer Country Nice Place Show Southern Spread
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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Country Else Government Idea Prefer Sensible Somebody

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