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China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.

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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

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Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.

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In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

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Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.

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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

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The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.

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The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.

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If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: November 14th, 1947

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