P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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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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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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Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.
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Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
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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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People love to be told what they know already.
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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 Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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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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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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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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Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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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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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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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.