The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
P. J. O'ROURKECleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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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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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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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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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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