P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  

  Kate Smith
  • God
  • America
  • Presidential

• I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • History
  • Taken
  • Judge

• Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Vote
  • Where
  • Percent

• I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I should most certainly have cast my vote for Mr. Clay.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Vote
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  • Election

• I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
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  • Attention

• Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Together
  • Positive
  • Vote

• Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

  

  Rand Paul
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  • Election
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• The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Important
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• It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I voted for you during your last election.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • You
  • Election
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• The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Good
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• If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Vote
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• We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • People
  • America
  • Health

• I'd vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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• On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
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• I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

  

  I. King Jordan
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• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
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• These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
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• I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Amazing
  • Fans

• People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • People
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• Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Try
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• The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • King
  • Queen

• Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
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• There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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