Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics. — P. J. O'Rourke Economics Copy Share Image
Dating is the social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion. — P. J. O'Rourke Conclusion Copy Share Image
Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically. — P. J. O'Rourke Funny Copy Share Image
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. — P. J. O'Rourke Borders Copy Share Image
Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with. — P. J. O'Rourke Honing Copy Share Image
One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop. — P. J. O'Rourke Government Copy Share Image
Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven. — P. J. O'Rourke Driven Copy Share Image
The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy. — P. J. O'Rourke Economy Copy Share Image
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children. — P. J. O'Rourke Children Copy Share Image
Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff. — P. J. O'Rourke Flirting Copy Share Image
That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police… — P. J. O'Rourke Burden Copy Share Image
I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed… — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
This going on and on about how terrible a carbon-based economy is, these people are full of crap. They don't know what… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since… — P. J. O'Rourke Communism Copy Share Image
There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger… — P. J. O'Rourke Clubs Copy Share Image
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked… — P. J. O'Rourke Advertising Copy Share Image
When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
![“Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven.” quote by P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93d/p-j-o-rourke-184_driven_political-stuff-is-all-about-his-hunter_1515473.png)
![“Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually dog-eared my copy. I ended up going back through it and writing a précis, I was so impressed by this book. It's all about what happens when government tries to make…” quote by P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2be/p-j-o-rourke-184_bigs_ever-read-any-friedrich-hayek-he-s-great_507817.jpg)
