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P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

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"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."

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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

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"All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis."

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"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."

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"The USA government states that the New Mexico Trinity nuclear bomb site is still highly radioactive and 'harmless'. It is interesting to note in the era of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that it is USA government policy that radio frequency (RF) and electricity are also 'harmless'."

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"If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people."

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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

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"In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people."

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"Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are."

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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"Never fight an inanimate object."
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"The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics."
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"There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring."
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"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."
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"We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do."
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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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"People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'"
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"I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom."
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"Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment."
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"If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas."
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