P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
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If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.
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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
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The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
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The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.