All P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
- The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them… Actual
- How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic? Allegedly
- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners… Building
- Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union. Armenians
- Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class. Beheading
- In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when… America
- It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still… Bombs
- It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali… Bills
- The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in… Any
- Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. Anyone
- Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just… Better
- The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion - very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an… Angry
- Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave. Course
- When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power… Benefits
- If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit… Bird
- Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all… All
- There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a… Any
- Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. Considered
- Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink. Communism
- So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available.… America
- Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism. Fiction
- Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about. Funny
- Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to… Blah
- How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets… Ample
- Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids. Babies