"And with Google Translate, it's amazing what you can get off government websites. Google Translate does an 85 percent good job. The other 15 percent it's fun to guess on your own."
On Occupy Wall Street:
"They hold up Occupy Wall Street as the liberal alternative to the Tea Party, but the thing is the Tea Party at least had a charter they coalesced around. Occupy Wall Street doesn't even have a charter."
(Student: well, actually they have a charter now…no government debt, forgive all student debts, trillion dollar increase in this and that, free secondary education for everybody...and somehow no debt?)
"They've made progress. I didn't know they'd coalesced around something. (pause.) If you want to coalesce around fairyland, I guess that's fine."
On Medicare and the debt crisis:
"Lots of fun stuff to talk about today. The subject is 'what destroyed the United States of America.' "
Students: (laughter, already?, it's finished?)
(Laughter) "I don't know exactly what tense it's in."
On Halloween:
"We instituted what we called the daddy tax. It had multiple functions, but one of them was to teach the functions of government. If you get a service like being driven around the neighborhood, you have to pay for that. The tax came in a variety of forms; it was particularly high in chocolate."
I want to be a member of this class.
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