The Harvard Lampoon itself, which had a pretty stellar run in the '60s. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders. — P. J. O'Rourke Being Copy Share Image
The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Satan probably wouldn't have talked so big if God had been his wife. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do. — P. J. O'Rourke Baby Copy Share Image
Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey… — P. J. O'Rourke Angry Copy Share Image
This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans. — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is. — P. J. O'Rourke Intellectual Copy Share Image
There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.” — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists. — P. J. O'Rourke Funny Copy Share Image
Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation… — P. J. O'Rourke Corruption Copy Share Image
[Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions… — P. J. O'Rourke Age Copy Share Image
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric:… — P. J. O'Rourke Antithesis Copy Share Image
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part… — P. J. O'Rourke Business Copy Share Image
Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the… — P. J. O'Rourke Berlin Copy Share Image
The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice.… — P. J. O'Rourke Acting Copy Share Image
The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance,… — P. J. O'Rourke Algebra Copy Share Image
The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof. — P. J. O'Rourke Civilization Copy Share Image
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye. — P. J. O'Rourke Acceptance Copy Share Image
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