Never fight an inanimate object.
P. J. O'ROURKEEverybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.
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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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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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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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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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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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People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it’s simply a measurement.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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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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