P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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People love to be told what they know already.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money.
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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 idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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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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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.