Us Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

14 Us quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

P. J. O'Rourke delivers his trademark wit while pondering the quirks of togetherness. Fourteen brief observations offer a sharp, humorous lens on our shared quirks.

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

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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening…

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Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has…

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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that…

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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to…

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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By…

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The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great…

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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as…

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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to…

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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer…

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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.…

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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and…

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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live…

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My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding…

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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.

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It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,…

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

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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

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Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and…

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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've…

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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.

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