Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
P. J. O'ROURKEGlobal warming is a fact. Now it’s up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.
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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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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.
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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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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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