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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.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
— P. J. O'Rourke
There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
— P. J. O'Rourke
We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.
— P. J. O'Rourke
How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?
— P. J. O'Rourke
Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Never do anything to a clitoris with your teeth that you wouldn't do to an expensive waterproof wristwatch.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.
— Meghan O'Rourke
The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.
— P. J. O'Rourke
If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.
— P. J. O'Rourke
A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.
— P. J. O'Rourke
In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Democrats hate success.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
— P. J. O'Rourke
As author P. J. O'Rourke puts it: Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.
— Timothy Ferriss
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
— P. J. O'Rourke
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
— P. J. O'Rourke
You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.
— P. J. O'Rourke
In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.
— P. J. O'Rourke
There can be no greater sacrifice than that a man lay down his lifestyle for others. And
— P. J. O'Rourke
The only time a bachelor's bed is made is when it's in the factory.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
— P. J. O'Rourke
'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Satan probably wouldn't have talked so big if God had been his wife.
— P. J. O'Rourke
You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
— P. J. O'Rourke
B students work for C students. A students teach.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids.
— P. J. O'Rourke
When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
— P. J. O'Rourke
How's Cujo?""He's good. Thank you for saving him." ...
"You asked," he said with a shrug. — Erica O'Rourke
Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.
— P. J. O'Rourke
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Schneider has made a career of telling the public that the climate is going to change drastically, and indeed every spring and fall he's been right.
— P. J. O'Rourke
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
— Meghan O'Rourke
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
— P. J. O'Rourke
America is the world's policeman, all right a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a domestic disturbance. — P. J. O'Rourke
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Math - it's not my best subject.
— Heather O'Rourke
Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
— P. J. O'Rourke
No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.
— P. J. O'Rourke
A loosening in my chest, the faintest stirrings of hope. But hope was a dangerous, fragile thing, easily shattered. I couldn't afford it.
— Erica O'Rourke
I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
— P. J. O'Rourke
It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.
— P. J. O'Rourke
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
— P. J. O'Rourke
If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
— P. J. O'Rourke
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.
— P. J. O'Rourke
If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The world is going to hell. All we can do is look good on the trip.
— P. J. O'Rourke
People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.
— P. J. O'Rourke
We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it ...
— P. J. O'Rourke
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
— P. J. O'Rourke
My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors.
— Heather O'Rourke
Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Love can never be fully explained.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Fascism is very much a mob movement.
— P. J. O'Rourke
People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.
— P. J. O'Rourke
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
— P. J. O'Rourke
A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against nukes?
— P. J. O'Rourke
In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!
— P. J. O'Rourke
