P. J. O'Rourke Quotes And Sayings

I Believe In God. God Created The World.

Richard Nixon Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Journalism. I Mean This Guy Was Wonderful. Just When You Thought He Could Get No Worse, He Got Worse.

I Don't Think Anybody's Really Been Successful With Theorizing About Value Or Creating A Price Theory.

The Job Of The President Of The United States Is To Talk To The Public, Is To Explain To Them. Now, Some Presidents Talk Too Much, Like Bill Clinton. Some Presidents Try To Talk But Don't Know How, Like George Bush Senior.

I've Never Been Able To Get It Straight About What These People Who Are Worried About The Trade Deficit Are Worried About.

I Was Never A Democrat. I Went From Republican To Maoist And Then Back Again.

Lyndon Johnson Faced Some Clear Moral Issues.

There Are 1.3 Billion People In China, And They All Want A Buick.

My Life Would Have Gone Along Perfectly Well, Politically Speaking, If It Hadn't Been For Girls.

I Think It's Been Hard For People To Understand How Islam Can Be A Good Religion, And Yet The Islamists Are Evil. Those Of Us Who Have Had Experience With Islam Understand This, Just As We Understand The Difference Between Snake Handlers And People Going To Church On Sunday Morning.

The Bar Is Set Pretty Low If You Want To Be A Hip, Accessible Conservative.

I Think That Humor Has Become A Principle Means Of Communication Among Americans About Politics.

Conservatives Really Don't Believe In Politics As The Primary Instrument Of Getting Along In Life And Therefore Don't Tend To Put Their Energy Into It A Way People Left Of Center Do.

People Love To Be Told What They Know Already.

I Don't Watch Much Television.

A Fundamental American Question Is, 'What's The Big Idea?'

Politics Is The One Field You Don't Age Out Of.

I Like Fiction And The Kind Of History That Gives The Grace And Flavor Of Fiction To The Past. No Bloviation On Current Events, Please. I Can Write That Junk Myself.

Writing Is Agony. I Hate It.

As I Get Older, All Sorts Of Things Become Less Funny. Once One Has Children, Any Cruelty Involving Children Becomes Far Less Amusing Than When One Was At The Mercy Of One's Friends' And Relatives' Children.

Gay Marriage Acceptance Is Happening In The Blink Of An Eye.

When I'm In The Car, I Want The Only One Shouting To Be Me.

The One Thing That's Terrible About Traveling For Fun Is Writing About It.

Northwest Ohio Is Flat. There Isn't Much Up. The Land Is So Flat That A Child From Toledo Is Under The Impression That The Direction Hills Go Is Down. Sledding Is Done Down From Street Level Into Creek Beds And Road Cuts.

In Toledo, People Grow Out. Out To The Suburbs. Out To The Parts Of America Where The Economy Is More Vigorous. And All Too Often, Out To 48-inch Waistbands.

Opinions Of Language Are As Interesting As Opinions Of Arithmetic.

My Whole Family Can Talk. They Are All Car Salesmen. They Are All Funny.

My Ignorance Is Widespread.

I've Only Been To New Zealand Once, About 1989. It Was Incredibly Beautiful, Kind Of Like The Ideal Of Where I Live In New England - All That And Then Some - But I Can't Say I Was There Long Enough To Get Any Very Clear Idea.

Kuwait City Is Not Gorgeous, Actually, But It's Got A Kind Of Epcot Center Thing Going For It. It's Not Pretty. But It's Striking, I'll Give It That. It's Not As Over-the-top As Abu Dhabi Or Dubai. But Nearly.

You're Never Going To Read 'The Wealth Of Nations,' And You Shouldn't, Really. It's 900 Pages.

I Was Very Much In Favor Of The Iraq Invasion.

Lack Of Romance Is My Real Objection To Writing On A Computer.

The Most Futuristic Aspect Of The House Of The Future Was That It Was Made Almost Entirely Of Plastic.

Disney's Tomorrowland Is Deeply, Thoroughly, Almost Furiously Unimaginative.

Moviemakers Are Rewarded With Tax Write-offs If, When Seeking A Location That Looks Like America, They Seek It In America.

Politics Is - Once In A While - A Forum For Serious Debate About Political Philosophy.

Neither Liberal Nor Conservative Politicians Can Resist The Temptation To Stand As Mighty Sequoias Of Rectitude Amid The Lowly Underbrush Of Fundraising.

If I Were A Congressman Who Had Voted For The American Jobs Creation Act Of 2004, I'd Claim It Was Forced On Our Country By A Sinister International Organization.

Adam Smith Pointed Out That There Were Three Things That Make Us More Prosperous, In A General Sort Of Way: Freedom To Pursue Our Own Self-interest; Specialization, Which He Called Division Of Labor; And Freedom Of Trade.

I Like To Argue With The Radio.

Why Is Iraq So Easy To Harm And So Hard To Help?

When The Government Runs Out Of Lenders, It Can Do Something That Households Are Forbidden To Do: Print Money.

I'm Fascinated By Political Enthusiasm.

When I Was Fifteen, I Dreamed Of Living In The Big City, As Many A Young Person Does If He Is Artistic And Sensitive. By 'Artistic And Sensitive' I Mean Short, Skinny, Unkissed, Bad At Sports, And Carrying A C Average In High School.

Arab-led Islamic Fundamentalism Destabilizes Nations From Algeria To The Philippines.

Liberals Consider People To Be Nuisances.

I Don't Understand Anything About America's Culture.

In The Soviet Union, No Industry Went Under Until They All Did.

Fall Of The Berlin Wall? Being There Was Fun. Nations That Flaked Off Of The Soviet Union In Southeastern Europe, Central Asia, And The Caucasus? Being There Was Not So Fun.