All P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
- Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones. Cost
- What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and… Announce
- No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy… Achieved
- In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City. Agglomeration
- Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines. Algeria
- We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world. American
- The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of… Bloc
- In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did. All
- Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the… Age
- Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be… Careless
- What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. Awe
- Regulation creates a moral hazard. Creates
- Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear… Architecture
- Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near… Annapolis
- The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots. Amnesia
- In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America. All
- Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market. Californians
- Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left. Barack
- The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep… Accounting
- The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. C Student
- Liberals consider people to be nuisances. Consider
- Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing… Agriculture
- Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus?… Asia
- TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia.… Age
- A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person. Balance