Whereas Rolling Stone, I just never had anything to do with them. I'd stop by the office maybe twice a year. — P. J. O'Rourke Office Copy Share Image
I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words, — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In the wake of Animal House, the stock briefly and quite wrongly shot up. So I love that movie. — P. J. O'Rourke Animal Copy Share Image
Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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 — P. J. O'Rourke American political system Copy Share Image
In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs. — P. J. O'Rourke Administration Copy Share Image
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages. — P. J. O'Rourke Books Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that… — P. J. O'Rourke Caring Copy Share Image
Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays… — P. J. O'Rourke Government Copy Share Image
Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things … it's not only worth… — P. J. O'Rourke Cynical Copy Share Image
The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public… — P. J. O'Rourke Congress Copy Share Image
The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race. — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. — P. J. O'Rourke Election day Copy Share Image
Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations. — P. J. O'Rourke Caribbean Copy Share Image
Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky. — P. J. O'Rourke Argument Copy Share Image
As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please. — P. J. O'Rourke Bartender Copy Share Image
If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it. — P. J. O'Rourke Baseball Copy Share Image
On Michael Moore TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20… — P. J. O'Rourke Environment Copy Share Image
Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. — P. J. O'Rourke Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I like to take things that are boring-but-important and try to make them interesting. That was definitely what I was after with… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a… — P. J. O'Rourke Baby Copy Share Image
The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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 Government Copy Share Image
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