P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

• 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.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Maturity

• 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.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Elections

• Then there’s politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Elections, Stupidity

• Never wear anything that panics the cat.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Panics, Cat, Anything, Never, Wear

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Children

  Tags in How, Except, Everybody, Them, Knows

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Schools, Corporal, Punishment, Teachers, Use

• 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.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Good

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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