Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
P. J. O'ROURKEWhat Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Global 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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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
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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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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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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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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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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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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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