Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living. — P. J. O'Rourke Life Copy Share Image
We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it. — P. J. O'Rourke Doubt Copy Share Image
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. — P. J. O'Rourke Government Copy Share Image
I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true. — P. J. O'Rourke Democracy Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. — P. J. O'Rourke Day after thanksgiving Copy Share Image
We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. The traditional present for a fifth anniversary is wood. Here's a… — P. J. O'Rourke Anniversary Copy Share Image
Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I… — P. J. O'Rourke Amendment Copy Share Image
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was… — P. J. O'Rourke Country Copy Share Image
This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief. — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through. — P. J. O'Rourke Balance Copy Share Image
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body… — P. J. O'Rourke Body Copy Share Image
The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say. — P. J. O'Rourke Constitution Copy Share Image
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization. — P. J. O'Rourke Civilization Copy Share Image
I am no stranger to loud music. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a… — P. J. O'Rourke Concert Copy Share Image
You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does. — P. J. O'Rourke Animal Copy Share Image
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. — P. J. O'Rourke Annoyance Copy Share Image
I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world. — P. J. O'Rourke Entire world Copy Share Image
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society. — P. J. O'Rourke Death Copy Share Image
Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling… — P. J. O'Rourke Class Copy Share Image
China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories. — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell. — P. J. O'Rourke Fool Copy Share Image
Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a… — P. J. O'Rourke Family Copy Share Image
I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer. — P. J. O'Rourke Computer Copy Share Image
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