I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
P. J. O'ROURKEWoodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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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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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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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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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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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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