You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages. P. J. O'Rourke Read Quote
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. P. J. O'Rourke Read Quote
After all, what is your host’s purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they’d have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. P. J. O'Rourke Read Quote
Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun. P. J. O'Rourke Read Quote
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase ‘hope and change,’ to wit: ‘big, fat government.’ P. J. O'Rourke Read Quote
Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers. P. J. O'Rourke Read Quote
If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it’s almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it’s Washington. P. J. O'Rourke Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. P. J. O'Rourke Read Quote
