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.
P. J. O'ROURKESouthern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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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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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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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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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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I believe in God. God created the world.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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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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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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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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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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