All P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
- Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. Baby
- Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies. Companies
- What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention. Annoy
- I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it. Carpenter
- I read good. I was an English major. English
- I'm really tired of virtue. Inspirational
- Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading. Business
- We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. Alas
- Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information. Crazy
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. Archetypal
- Hubris is one of the great renewable resources. Great
- I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements. Engagement
- I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer. Computer
- I'm a political conservative. Conservative
- I'm a rather decisive type. Decisive
- I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. Air
- Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. Draft
- Satire doesn't effect change. Change
- There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more. Any
- Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances. Any
- You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. Best
- You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke. Broke
- Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government,… Bit
- Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are… Call
- There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence… Arab