Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

About P. J. O'Rourke:

Patrick Jake is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. Since 2011 O'Rourke has been a columnist at The Daily Beast. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for British Airways in the 1990s.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

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The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.

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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

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Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.

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To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

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Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.

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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.

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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.

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The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.

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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

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The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

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The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.

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Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.

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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.

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I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

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Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.

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Author Bio

  • NameP. J. O'Rourke
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornNovember 14, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Author