Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
P. J. O'ROURKERichard 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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I believe in God. God created the world.
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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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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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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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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry – knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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I’m too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom’s earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.
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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.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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