Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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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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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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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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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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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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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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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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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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