Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
P. J. O'ROURKEEnding wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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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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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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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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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, ‘But doesn’t it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn’t it be set in New Guinea?’ And you say, ‘But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.’
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There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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