P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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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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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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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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Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.
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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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Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.
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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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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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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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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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People love to be told what they know already.
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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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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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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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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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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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Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
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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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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.