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The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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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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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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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 people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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