The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages.


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My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their w...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - pai...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scare...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a...
CHUCK HAGEL
The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shal...
CHUCK NORRIS
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
CHUCK JONES
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need ...
CHUCK D
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all fall...
CHUCK HAGEL
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, beca...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.
CHUCK INGLISH
I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES
What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome w...
CHUCK NORRIS
I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, ...
CHUCK KLEIN
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or aware...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure ...
CHUCK NORRIS
California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the c...
CHUCK EDDY
Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance...
CHUCK TODD
I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected.
CHUCK FLEISCHMANN
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the othe...
CHUCK D
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
CHUCK NORRIS
Every day, we are bombarded with a multitude of toxins in the environment. We know that the negative...
CHUCK NORRIS
I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt ...
CHUCK FEENEY
My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was n...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable....
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basi...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book wr...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like b...
CHUCK BARRIS
Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
We can't deal with the flood in the orchards until we cap the floodwaters coming into them. And ...
CHUCK NORRIS
Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as ess...
CHUCK D
Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a...
CHUCK MANGIONE
You decide your own level of involvement.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolis...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK