P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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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 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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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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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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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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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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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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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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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 Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?
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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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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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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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Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.
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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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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.