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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke I believe in God. God created the world.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
P. J. O'RourkeP. 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'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke 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.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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