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"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."

-Abba Eban

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"Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."

-Thomas Berger

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Herman Cain is the first Republican presidential candidate to get secret service protection. The level of protection a candidate gets depends on how well-known they are. For example, Jon Huntsman gets a 10-minute judo lesson and a plastic whistle.

–Jay Leno

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For example, were it in my power to accomplish one thing in Washington, D.C., the federal Department of Education would be abolished and its employees summarily dismissed from public service. Except for funding necessary research and providing educational benefits for military veterans, we would get the federal government entirely out of the education business.

-Robert Stacy McCain

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“Over the weekend in New York, two Occupy Wall Street protesters got married at the protest. They are registered at Bed, Bath, and Seriously, You Need to Take a Bath.”

–Conan O’Brien

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Yes, he (Obama) considers self-reliance to be a bad thing and government reliance to be a good thing. Really, did the pilgrims come here because they were hoping to find a new government to take care of them? Did people head out West because they thought in that expanse they’d find a government to better protect them?

-Frank J.

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The last time there were this many mentally ill people on the streets, they blamed Reagan.

-Proof, on the #Occupy Wall Street violence

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

-C.S. Lewis

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"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."

-Sir Barnett Cocks

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Obama: "Had the buck stopped here, I would have spent it."

-Proof

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A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

-Thomas Jefferson

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Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

- William F. Buckley, Jr.

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The real debate isn’t whether to cut, only what and how much and when. (My preferred answers: almost everything, a lot, now.)

-Kevin D. Williamson

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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

-Winston Churchill

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“Conrad Murray was found guilty of giving Michael Jackson an overdose of a prescription sleeping aid. Pretty reckless on the part of the doctor. They said the sedative he prescribed was five times more powerful than a Joe Biden speech.”

–Jay Leno

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"I've gone from being dead in June to being asked who will be in my cabinet. I think that's real progress."

-Newt Gingrich

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He had a thin résumé as a lawyer...kind of a "Sue veneer".

-Proof

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Last week, several dozen members of “Occupy Las Vegas” occupying land located under the final approach to Runway 19 at McCarran International Airport narrowly missed being hit by a 50-pound slab of what’s euphemistically known as “blue ice” that fell from the bathroom of the president’s plane. Perhaps, as a symbol of the new post-self-reliant America of adult babies, Air Force One should be fitted with a giant diaper.

-Mark Steyn

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"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

-Sir Winston Churchill

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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

-George Orwell