P. J. O'Rourke

P. J. O'Rourke

"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich."
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"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Never fight an inanimate object."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely."
P. J. O'Rourke
"There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye."
P. J. O'Rourke
"The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt."
P. J. O'Rourke
"All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants."
P. J. O'Rourke
"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."
P. J. O'Rourke
"The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot."
P. J. O'Rourke
"No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies."
P. J. O'Rourke
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