Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
P. J. O'ROURKEWhatever 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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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?
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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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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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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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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
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As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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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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