There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
So what if I don't agree with the Democrats? What's to disagree with? They believe everything. And what they don't believe, the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded… — P. J. O'Rourke Assassinate Copy Share Image
There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side,… — P. J. O'Rourke Bright side Copy Share Image
In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts.… — P. J. O'Rourke Effort Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug… — P. J. O'Rourke Beauty Copy Share Image
A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing… — P. J. O'Rourke Annoyance Copy Share Image
President Bush said that if illegal immigrants want citizenship, they'd have to do three things: pay taxes, hold meaningful jobs, and learn… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When a couple decide to divorce, they should inform both sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as… — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted… — P. J. O'Rourke Calm Copy Share Image
If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very… — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I… — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup,… — P. J. O'Rourke Assassination Copy Share Image
Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other… — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at… — P. J. O'Rourke Communist Copy Share Image
Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and… — P. J. O'Rourke Alive Copy Share Image
Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in… — P. J. O'Rourke Amusing Copy Share Image
The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in… — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And… — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You'll note that politicians no longer spend money, they invest it. Don't worry about paying more to the [IRS]. You aren't being… — P. J. O'Rourke Investing Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed… — P. J. O'Rourke Automobile Copy Share Image
I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example -… — P. J. O'Rourke Bombs Copy Share Image
Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll… — P. J. O'Rourke Air travel Copy Share Image
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be… — P. J. O'Rourke Dating Copy Share Image
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