P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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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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This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
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I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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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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In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailing-boat equipment, the gin and tonic.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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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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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. Keep your hands to yourself, Bill. Hillary, mind your own business.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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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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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say 'I've got cancer' and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?
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I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.
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If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.
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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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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.
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Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.
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The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.