Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
P. J. O'ROURKEPeople are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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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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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It’s going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it’s the Democrats.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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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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