"If government were a product, selling it would…" — P.J. O'Rourke
"If government were a product, selling it would be illegal."
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578 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
P.J. O'Rourke has 578 quotes on this site.
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The…
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Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
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Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak -…
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More Government Quotes
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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation.…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
— Aristotle
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of…
— Aristotle
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We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
— Julian Assange
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.
— Joe Arpaio
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
— Mary Astell
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
— David Attenborough
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
— Saint Augustine
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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was…
— Bill Ayers
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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