I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
P. J. O'ROURKEBill 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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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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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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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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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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