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Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

P. J. O'Rourke's Popular Quotes

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

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

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

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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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