P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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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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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.
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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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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
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Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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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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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
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I like to argue with the radio.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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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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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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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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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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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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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.