Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

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• P. J. O'Rourke:

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

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• P. J. O'Rourke:

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