911 Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

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    Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

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    Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

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    Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.

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    There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

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    Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer -- a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.

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    Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.

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    Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

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