P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.
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Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
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If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.
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At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.
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Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.