P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
No government proposal more complicated than 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private' ever works.
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
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I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
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We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.
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We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
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Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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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.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.
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Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.
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You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.
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I found a belief system that worked for me, and I said, you know what, 'I actually do want to give being with men another chance.'
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I felt that in me fear could not put down roots, and even the lava, the fiery stream of melting matter that I imagined inside the earthly globe, and the fear it provoked in me, settled in my mind in orderly sentences, in harmonious images, became a pavement of black stones like the streets of Naples, a pavement where I was always and no matter what the center.
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No government proposal more complicated than 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private' ever works.
