The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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 know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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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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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding 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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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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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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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.
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The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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