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.
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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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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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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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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