All P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
- You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity. Acceptance
- Australia is not very exclusive. On the visa application they still ask if you've been convicted of a felony - although they are willing to… Application
- Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on… Across
- There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail… Club
- One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point. Asked
- Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like… Banana
- The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having their tea all… All
- Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the… Absolving
- If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you… Advertising
- Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first. Covering
- Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of… Faith
- I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists. Better
- I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures. Even Sure
- In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living. Afford
- Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he… All
- Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents. All
- There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international… Austerely
- Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please. Bartender
- I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it… Arrived
- Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else. Affluence
- The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power - out… Better
- Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities.… Americans
- Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at… America
- The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something… Aggrandizement
- Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing… Aerial