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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings

— George Will

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A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

The people do not decide issues, they decide who shall decide.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

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