American - Comedian | November 14, 1947 -
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
P. J. O'Rourke
TruthPeopleYouWillTellAnything
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
GovernmentPeopleTestTrueWould
I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
EndKnowNeverGazeUsedEven
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
ChangeBadDoneSometimes
Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!
ParentSomeonePrettyExcellent
I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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I'm a rather decisive type.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
PoliceTrainingBurdenUnfairEven
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.
HistoryWorldProblemsTruePlaces
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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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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