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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

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Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

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Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: November 14th, 1947

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