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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb (P J ORourke Quotes)
You’re not a baby boomer if you don’t have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate. (P J ORourke Quotes)
The baby boomers’ politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there’s been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness. (P J ORourke Quotes)
I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again. (P J ORourke Quotes)
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions. (P J ORourke Quotes)
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich. (P J ORourke Quotes)
A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person (P J ORourke Quotes)
All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers’ unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America’s most ex of ex-presidents. You just can’t believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Toledo is better than exciting, it’s happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you’re baseball team is the Mud Hens. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won’t dig up the pretty lawn, won’t plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders (P J ORourke Quotes)
Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets. (P J ORourke Quotes)
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society (P J ORourke Quotes)
Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can’t blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to ‘speak truth to power’ to Robert Mugabe. (P J ORourke Quotes)
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 ORourke Quotes)
Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so. (P J ORourke Quotes)
I don’t mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper. (P J ORourke Quotes)
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase ‘hope and change,’ to wit: ‘big, fat government.’ (P J ORourke Quotes)
You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don’t need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. (P J ORourke Quotes)
When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By ‘artistic and sensitive’ I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school. (P J ORourke Quotes)
If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions. (P J ORourke Quotes)
The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt. (P J ORourke Quotes)
I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I’m a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies. (P J ORourke Quotes)
There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have. (P J ORourke Quotes)
I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don’t know the language as it is if you do. (P J ORourke Quotes)
The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, ‘branches’ since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks. ... Government is not a machine with parts; it’s an organism. When does an intestine quit being an intestine and start becoming an asshole? (P J ORourke Quotes)