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Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee. (P J ORourke Quotes)
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you’ve read his autobiography. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box (P J ORourke Quotes)
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It’s helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000. (P J ORourke Quotes)
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, I’m from the federal government, and I’m here to help. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world (P J ORourke Quotes)
Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace. (P J ORourke Quotes)
America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum (P J ORourke Quotes)
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. (P J ORourke Quotes)
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin (P J ORourke Quotes)
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny. (P J ORourke Quotes)
The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives (P J ORourke Quotes)
The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you’re the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains. (P J ORourke Quotes)
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. The traditional present for a fifth anniversary is wood. Here’s a gift suggestion: a big stick to beat some goddamned sense into their heads. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don’t read his first book, because they don’t read ‘The Theory of Moral Sentiments.’ (P J ORourke Quotes)
Global warming is a fact. Now it’s up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step. (P J ORourke Quotes)
As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion. (P J ORourke Quotes)
All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don’t believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He’s a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he’s such an excellent banjo player that you almost don’t wish you had a pair of wire cutters. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, Soon you’ll be finished with dinner. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life. (P J ORourke Quotes)