3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change – or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is – certainly is one of them. But it’s low on my list.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke 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.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke 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.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke There’s a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke You don’t despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
