Thinking Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

— P. J. O'Rourke

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.

— P. J. O'Rourke

This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

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As a result of that, and as a result of friendship, I don't think we've ever been competitive. I mean, there's probably…

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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…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't…

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The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd…

— P. J. O'Rourke

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

— P. J. O'Rourke

America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton administration is putting a high-powered coporate lawyer - Hillary - in charge of making…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or…

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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil.…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Then basically what was happening was that it was the middle '80s, and Rolling Stone realized that a lot of their readers…

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Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to…

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It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived…

— P. J. O'Rourke

When [George W.] Bush was elected, I think they thought I would have some sort of special "in" with that administration, to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking…

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…the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?

— P. J. O'Rourke

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

— P. J. O'Rourke

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser.

— P. J. O'Rourke

There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

— P. J. O'Rourke

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free…

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I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer…

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There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous…

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I think in the [Bill] Clinton era, if people hadn't been spending vast amounts of time attacking Clinton, they would have found…

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In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden…

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