Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being ‘hegemonistic’, of engaging in ‘unilateralism’, of behaving as if we’re the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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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.
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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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.
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry – knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It’s going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it’s the Democrats.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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