Communism doesn’t really starve or execute that many people. Mostly it just bores them to death.
P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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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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