Communism doesn’t really starve or execute that many people. Mostly it just bores them to death.
P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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| Birth: | 14th November, 1947 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Journalist, Politician, Satirist, Writer |
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P. J. O'Rourke 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!. 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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