Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

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In the United Kingdom he is known as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for British Airways in the 1990s. This was preceded on September 21 2010 by Don't Vote!-It Just Encourages the Bastards and on September 1 2009 Driving Like Crazy with a reprint edition publiP. J. O'Rourked on May 11 2010.