460 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don’t need politics, they have jobs.

The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they’re that gullible, maybe we should have held the summit at Atlantic City and let them lose all their missiles playing Keno.

The America’s Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

The Middle Eastern states aren’t nations; they’re quarrels with borders.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.

The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.