Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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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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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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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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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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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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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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