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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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.

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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

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'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.

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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

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One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.

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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.

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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.

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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

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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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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.

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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

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I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a little too much.

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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

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A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

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Author Bio

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