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“ If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters. ”

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Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

~ P. J. O'rourke

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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

~ P. J. O'rourke

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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

~ P. J. O'rourke

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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

~ P. J. O'rourke

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