911 Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.

As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.

Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won't get in heaven.

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.