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I don't see evidence of america being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. i've seen impoverished devastation. i've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.

-P. J. O'Rourke

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I don't see evidence of america being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. i've seen impoverished devastation. i've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.

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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.

If cathedrals had been universities if dungeons of the inquisition had been laboratories if christians had believed in character instead of creed if they had taken from the bible only that which is good and thrown away the wicked and absurd if temple domes had been observatories if priests had been philosophers if missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore if astrology had been astronomy if the black arts had been chemistry if superstition had been science if religion had been humanity the world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy

The thing that makes me most optimistic is china and india - both of them doing well. it's amazing how much progress there's been in china, and also india. those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. they're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. and i don't see anything that's going to stop that.

It's amazing how much progress there's been in china, and also india. those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. they're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. and i don't see anything that's going to stop that.

I'm old enough now that i've been around and i've seen a lot more things than i had seen when i started this program 27 years. i have seen presidents in action. i have been to the white house a number of times. i have been to fundraisers. i have been seen what happens at fundraisers. i've seen how elected officials treat fundraisers and donors and, believe me, the world revolves around them.

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