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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke 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'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke 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.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Raha ArazRaha Araz I tried to write you something uplifting but I could only see grey.
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What really resonated with my students, I think, is that most of the writers we worked with were journalists, and when they saw journalists simply raising questions and being put in jail for that, it did freak them out a little bit.
Adam BraverAdam Braver I ain’t going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin’ us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin’ now is Black Power!
Stokely CarmichaelStokely Carmichael There are very few people who have committed more to the pro-life discourse than Rob has. He’s spent time in jail. He has really lived it.
Abigail DisneyAbigail Disney But Ash, I can’t continue to want you from a distance. To love you and not have you. I’d end up in jail if anyone tried to touch you and God forbid you tried to date someone.
Abbi GlinesAbbi Glines The second time I went to jail, I was like, ‘Okay, this is not the move.’
The Notorious B.I.G.The Notorious B.I.G. I’d rather go to jail than give the hunters a penny.
Brigitte BardotBrigitte Bardot We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
Angela DavisAngela Davis Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can’t have one with out the other. They coincide.
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