The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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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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 believe in God. God created the world.
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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State’s registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they’re going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can’t understand what they say.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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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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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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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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