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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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
Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.
— P. J. O'Rourke
If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
— P. J. O'Rourke
East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.
— P. J. O'Rourke
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Oh come on'P.O.E.T.S.'? 'piss.off.early.tomorrows.saterday.' the weekend approches people!
— Dan Abnett
Never do anything to a clitoris with your teeth that you wouldn't do to an expensive waterproof wristwatch.
— P. J. O'Rourke
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
— P. J. O'Rourke
In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked people passed out around me.
— 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 American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election
— P. J. O'Rourke
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
— P. J. O'Rourke
You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.
— P. J. O'Rourke
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
— Thomas P. O'Neill
I don't watch much television.
— 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
The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
— 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
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
— P. J. O'Rourke
People shouldn't be treated like objects. They aren't that valuable.
— P. J. O'Rourke
If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If we don't need them, no harm is done.
— 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
A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Satan probably wouldn't have talked so big if God had been his wife.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
— P. J. O'Rourke
When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
— P. J. O'Rourke
The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
— P. J. O'Rourke
We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!
— P. J. O'Rourke
One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying
— P. J. O'Rourke
Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?
— Harold Reynolds
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I don't understand anything about America's culture.
— P. J. O'Rourke
We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
— P. J. O'Rourke
You can't get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.
— P. J. O'Rourke
My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.
— P. J. 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
Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
— P. J. O'Rourke
We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
— P. J. O'Rourke
America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Politics won't allow for the truth.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The best things in life aren't free ... they're given freely, but you have to work hard to keep them - Shane KP O'Neill
— Shane K.P. O'Neill
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
— 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
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
M o re times a c u s t omer agr e es to a p r o b l em or difficulty, t he m o re likely t he sale
— Anonymous
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
Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It's impossible to be alive and safe.
— P. J. O'Rourke
In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.
— P. J. O'Rourke
That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.
— P. J. O'Rourke
What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?
— P. J. O'Rourke
My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
— P. J. O'Rourke
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow ... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco ...
— P. J. O'Rourke
America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
— P. J. O'Rourke
