P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.

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• Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.

  

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• American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

  

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• The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
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