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A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

~P. J. O'Rourke

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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

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Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

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People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

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I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'

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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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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: November 14th, 1947

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