Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner." — P. J. O'Rourke Chinese Copy Share Image
In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures. — P. J. O'Rourke Funny Copy Share Image
Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread… — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked. — P. J. O'Rourke Death Copy Share Image
The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer.… — P. J. O'Rourke Action Copy Share Image
Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed,… — P. J. O'Rourke Aging Copy Share Image
I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound… — P. J. O'Rourke British Copy Share Image
Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. — P. J. O'Rourke Buying Copy Share Image
Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection. — P. J. O'Rourke Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.' — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts. — P. J. O'Rourke Political 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
The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. — P. J. O'Rourke Beautiful Copy Share Image
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. — P. J. O'Rourke Canada 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
Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It… — P. J. O'Rourke Alcohol Copy Share Image
There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all… — P. J. O'Rourke Change Copy Share Image
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and… — P. J. O'Rourke Alcoholics Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is… — P. J. O'Rourke Arab Copy Share Image
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie… — P. J. O'Rourke Alcohol Copy Share Image
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