Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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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 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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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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