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P. J. O'Rourke

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Kepemimpinan

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

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Kehidupan

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

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Kepemimpinan

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

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Pendidikan

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

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Kreativitas

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

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Kepemimpinan

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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Kepemimpinan

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

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Kepemimpinan

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

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Kepemimpinan

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

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Kepemimpinan

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

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Kepemimpinan

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

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Kepemimpinan

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

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Motivasi

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

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Kehidupan

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

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Kehidupan

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

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Nasihat

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

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Kehidupan

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

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Humor

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

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Kepemimpinan

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

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Cinta

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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