All P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
- China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories. America
- Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom. Baby
- My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. Cannot Get
- The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad. Bad
- Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds… Babylon
- President Obama has contempt for real money. Contempt
- Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money. Any
- For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the… America
- In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. Conference
- Democrats hate Democrats most of all. All
- Democrats hate success. Democrats
- Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference. Democrats
- Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats. America
- Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and… Barrels
- The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal. Abnormal
- Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the… All
- No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism. Collapsed
- The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it. Albeit
- Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot. Angry
- Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border. Africa
- Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life. American
- I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped. Chirped
- I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant… Allows
- Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe,… Antithesis
- The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions. Afghans