P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

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• We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

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• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

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• The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

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

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• Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

   

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• It’s better to make fun of yourself because you’ve always got someone around to make fun of, and they can’t sue you.

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• We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

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• Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

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• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.

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• Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

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• Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

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• Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

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• Never wear anything that panics the cat.

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• Never fight an inanimate object.

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• Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.

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• Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

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• Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

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• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

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• With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn’t think possible in today’s world. They have created a land of make-believe that’s worse than regular life.

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P. J. O'Rourke (107)

Birth:	14th November, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Politician, Satirist, Writer

About

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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