"Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him."
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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 Bloc Quotes
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one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of…
— David Cameron
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Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc…
— Tony Campolo
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If you have a large bloc of Americans who believe you're trying to keep their ... fellow Hispanics down and…
— John McCain
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The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such…
— Malcolm X
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Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this,…
— Malcolm X
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I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people…
— Unknown Author
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Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated…
— John F. Kennedy
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.
— Lee Harvey Oswald
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know…
— John Shelton Reed
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Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.
— Lucas Papademos
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