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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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

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Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.

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Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

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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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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

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Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

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The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.

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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

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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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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

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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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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.

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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.

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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.

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Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the Unit...

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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

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I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'

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A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

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Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.

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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

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Author Bio

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