All P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
- Philosophy was once considered science. Considered
- Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician. Effort
- Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire. Almost Certain
- Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are… Attempting
- Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national… Coherent
- A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century. Addendum
- Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their… Disproven
- Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them. Best
- Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Cesspools
- Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods. American
- Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that… Art
- It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic… All
- Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his… Attempts
- Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the… All
- Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him. Bloc
- Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. Beautiful
- Love can never be fully explained. Explained
- Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool. Alike
- Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx. Bronx
- There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not… Admit
- Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life. Brightens
- The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people. Bore
- There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty,… Basic
- The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious… Administration
- Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. College