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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

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The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

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The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

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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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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.

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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

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Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

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We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

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The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?

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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

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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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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.

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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.

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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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I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.

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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.

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War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

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Never wear anything that panics the cat.

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Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.

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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

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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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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.

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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

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I believe in God. God created the world.

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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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Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.

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