P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.
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I am no stranger to loud noise. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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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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Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.