“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.”
Anger“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.”
Happiness“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.”
Anger“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”
Family“You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.”
Best“What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.”
Government“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.”
Education“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
Politics“Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.”
Death“If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.”
Government“There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.”
Men“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”
Funny“Never fight an inanimate object.”
Funny“Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.”
Great“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.”
Government“Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.”
Health“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.”
Funny“Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.”
Failure“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
Car“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.”
History“There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.”
Women“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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