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System Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
- Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it…
- Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.
- .......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their…
- This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.
- There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
- Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system
- In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman.…
- Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
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- The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. — Scott Adams
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- You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function… — Dick Cheney