Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
P. J. O'ROURKEGlobalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I’m too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom’s earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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