P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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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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No government proposal more complicated than 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private' ever works.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.
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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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Pollution is a problem, and there's the whole problem of the spoiling of the commons, but we've addressed the pollution problem on a variety of different levels in a variety of ways, and it's worked pretty well.
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Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.
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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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Freddie Aguilar, who's billed as 'the Bob Dylan of the Philippines.' This is unfair, since he's good-looking, plays the guitar well, can carry a tune, and writes songs that make sense.
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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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The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
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It was to be a short visit for the G-shevs. More than four days in the U.S. and Raisa's VISA card bill would shatter the fragile Soviet economy.
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As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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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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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
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Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty- their power and privilege- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.
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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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Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.