P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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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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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.
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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 life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.
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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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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a little too much.
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Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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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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I don't watch much television.
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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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Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.