Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.
P. J. O'ROURKEFinland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.
P. J. O'ROURKEIf you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
P. J. O'ROURKEPolitics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O'ROURKEWhatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
P. J. O'ROURKEWhen you’re a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, ‘Gee, I wouldn’t want to be doing that.’ They’re on your side.
P. J. O'ROURKEPeople 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.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'ROURKEWhen I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
P. J. O'ROURKEHumans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'ROURKEWhen elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe 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.
P. J. O'ROURKEGiving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'ROURKECatchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
P. J. O'ROURKEStupid is a great force in human affairs.
P. J. O'ROURKEPeople will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
P. J. O'ROURKEEverybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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