New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State’s registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they’re going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can’t understand what they say.
P. J. O'ROURKEI was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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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.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Don’t send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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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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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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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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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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