There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It’s going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it’s the Democrats.
P. J. O'ROURKEI was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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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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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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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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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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The baby boomers’ politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there’s been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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