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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
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I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
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I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.
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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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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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Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
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The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
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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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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'
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I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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