The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'ROURKEAgriculture 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.
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As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
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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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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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