P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
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Fascism is very much a mob movement.
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I am unboreable in the great outdoors.
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Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Democrats hate success.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
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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.
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Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
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Bill Maher can be pretty good, except when he gets "important." Maher's all over the place politically.
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Kids are disorganized.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.
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El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
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Despite the fact that meat is made from dead animals, it shouldn't smell that way. Try this test for meat freshness: close your eyes and see if you can tell the pork chops from a gym locker.