P. J. O'Rourke quotes - page 11

She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters. (P. J. O'Rourke)
A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians. View quote
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Freddie Aguilar, who's billed as "the Bob Dylan of the Philippines." This is unfair, since he's good-looking, plays the guitar well, can carry a tune, and writes songs that make sense. View quote
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays. View quote
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively. View quote
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks. View quote
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior. View quote
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics. View quote
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I read good. I was an English major. View quote
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The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage. View quote
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If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed. (P. J. O'Rourke)
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. View quote
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I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about. View quote
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed. View quote
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Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another. View quote
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known. View quote
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Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad. View quote
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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny. View quote
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information. View quote
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad? View quote
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama. (P. J. O'Rourke)
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. View quote
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement. View quote
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Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. View quote
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left. View quote
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