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'ROURKEThe beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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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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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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Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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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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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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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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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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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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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.
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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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