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<p>"The free market is a bathroom scale. We may not like what we see when we step on the bathroom scale, but we can't pass a law making ourselves weigh 165. Liberals and leftists think we can."</p> <p>"Given the complete dominance of politics by Committee Brain, the wonder is that anything gets done, and the horror is that it does. What government accomplishes is what you'd expect from a committee. 'A camel is a horse designed by a committee' is a saying that couldn't be more wrong. A camel is a seeing-eye dog designed by a committee and available free with government grants to the halt and the lame."</p> <p>"The most sensible request we make of government is not 'Do something!' but 'Quit it!'"</p> <p>"We have the cow of economic freedom. Do we take the cow to market and trade her for the magic beans of bailout and stimulus? When we climb that beanstalk we're going to find a giant government at the top. Are we going to be as lucky as Jack the giant killer was? I'm not sure Jack himself was that lucky with his giant killing. My guess is the Jack spent years being investigated by giant subcommittees and now Jack's paying a giant tax on his beanstalk bonus."</p> <p>"I caught my six-ye

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Author

O'Rourke, P. J.

Publisher

New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.]: Distributed by Publishers Group West

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802119605

Category

humor

Subjects

Political Science, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.58 / 5 (523 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14