The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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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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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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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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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
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The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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