Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
P. J. O'ROURKEA fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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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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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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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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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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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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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It’s going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it’s the Democrats.
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