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Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living.

P. J. O'Rourke's Popular Quotes

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

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Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

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Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their moti…

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When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.

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Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I…

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In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

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If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?

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Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

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Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

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