Political Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm a political conservative.

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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

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Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

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There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

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Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

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When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

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God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

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Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven.

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Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead…

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The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

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The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.

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The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no…

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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according…

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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party…

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In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

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Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention…

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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage.…

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Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various…

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Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually…

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You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked…

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Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food,…

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If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been…

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Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part…

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In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures…

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Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even…

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The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

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You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

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[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

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Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.

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We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we…

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So what if I don't agree with the Democrats? What's to disagree with? They believe everything. And what they don't believe, the…

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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded…

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I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts.…

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Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink…

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