Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
P. J. O'ROURKEMaking fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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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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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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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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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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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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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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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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It’s better to make fun of yourself because you’ve always got someone around to make fun of, and they can’t sue you.
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