If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it’s a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also – to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
P. J. O'ROURKEEach child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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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.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.
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The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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