I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they… — P. J. O'Rourke France Copy Share Image
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according… — P. J. O'Rourke Administration Copy Share Image
If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have… — P. J. O'Rourke Family Copy Share Image
The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where… — P. J. O'Rourke Cocktails Copy Share Image
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the… — P. J. O'Rourke Adventure Copy Share Image
Like it or not, I've come to appreciate soccer. Any kid can play, which fits with the inclusive agenda of progressive schools.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived… — 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
Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously… — P. J. O'Rourke Baseball Copy Share Image
My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding… — P. J. O'Rourke Family Copy Share Image
I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the… — P. J. O'Rourke Anxiety Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of… — P. J. O'Rourke Class Copy Share Image
The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've… — P. J. O'Rourke Giving Copy Share Image
Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per… — P. J. O'Rourke Age Copy Share Image
How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no… — P. J. O'Rourke British Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that… — P. J. O'Rourke Ashtrays Copy Share Image
I think in the [Bill] Clinton era, if people hadn't been spending vast amounts of time attacking Clinton, they would have found… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At… — P. J. O'Rourke Asia Copy Share Image
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was… — P. J. O'Rourke Art Copy Share Image
Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to… — P. J. O'Rourke Blind Copy Share Image
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what… — P. J. O'Rourke Character Copy Share Image
Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with… — P. J. O'Rourke Advocate Copy Share Image
Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals… — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of… — P. J. O'Rourke Automobile Copy Share Image
In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We're gonna be in a world of hurt if we don't get it fixed, because there's going to be billions of people… — P. J. O'Rourke Amendment Copy Share Image
Mike had called me and said he could offer me less, and I said, "You're on!" Because I was really excited with… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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