We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The world is going to hell. All we can do is look good on the trip. ” — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer. — P. J. O'Rourke Computer Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician. — P. J. O'Rourke Effort Copy Share Image
Apparently Bolivia is the key source of lithium in the world. So we're gonna trade the Saudis for the Bolivians. — P. J. O'Rourke Bolivia Copy Share Image
I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty. — P. J. O'Rourke Poverty Copy Share Image
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. — P. J. O'Rourke Authorship Copy Share Image
That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border. — P. J. O'Rourke Africa Copy Share Image
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. — P. J. O'Rourke Capitalism Copy Share Image
France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything… — P. J. O'Rourke August Copy Share Image
If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just… — P. J. O'Rourke Businessmen Copy Share Image
As a result of that, and as a result of friendship, I don't think we've ever been competitive. I mean, there's probably… — P. J. O'Rourke Friendship Copy Share Image
When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead… — P. J. O'Rourke Journalism Copy Share Image
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking… — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various… — P. J. O'Rourke Attitude Copy Share Image
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion - very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly… — P. J. O'Rourke Angry Copy Share Image
Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These… — P. J. O'Rourke Affluence Copy Share Image
If I do, I say so. That's the only way out of that. If there are three words that need to be… — P. J. O'Rourke Basic principles Copy Share Image
Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been… — P. J. O'Rourke Agendas Copy Share Image
The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party… — P. J. O'Rourke Anti communist Copy Share Image
A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. — P. J. O'Rourke Architecture Copy Share Image
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The only time a bachelor's bed is made is when it's in the factory. — P. J. O'Rourke Bachelor Copy Share Image
Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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