P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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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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Biotechnology is a worry. What if they take genetic material from wet noodles and blowfish and splice it into politician chromosomes and create a Clinton administration?
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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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No government proposal more complicated than 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private' ever works.
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Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.
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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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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
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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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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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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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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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You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
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A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.
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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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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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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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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
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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 think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
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There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.