Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
P. J. O'ROURKEWhen elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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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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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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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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The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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