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Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day. (P J ORourke Quotes)
The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop. (P J ORourke Quotes)
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca’s day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments. (P J ORourke Quotes)
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. (P J ORourke Quotes)
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 ORourke Quotes)
Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can’t even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones (P J ORourke Quotes)
When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats. (P J ORourke Quotes)
When you pay a hospital bill, you’re really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn’t have a job and/or insurance and can’t pay the hospital. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Medical researchers don’t know much about head lice because they don’t much care. The reason that they don’t much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Health care’s not about insurance! Health care’s about getting treatment. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system (P J ORourke Quotes)
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money (P J ORourke Quotes)
Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit! (P J ORourke Quotes)
Remember when what is now called publicity was called public shame and humiliation? (P J ORourke Quotes)
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it (P J ORourke Quotes)
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do (P J ORourke Quotes)
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is (P J ORourke Quotes)
Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident (P J ORourke Quotes)
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs (P J ORourke Quotes)
I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality (P J ORourke Quotes)
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year (P J ORourke Quotes)
Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is (P J ORourke Quotes)
One thing that’s certain about going outdoors: When you come back inside, you’ll be scratching (P J ORourke Quotes)
People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don’t need politics, they have jobs (P J ORourke Quotes)
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences (P J ORourke Quotes)