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P J ORourke Quotes
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![[We’re] told cars cause pollution. A 100 years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine? Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/919/918850/918850.webp "[We’re] told cars cause pollution. A 100 years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine? Picture Quote #1")
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you’ve written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. (P J ORourke Quotes)
I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses. (P J ORourke Quotes)
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do. (P J ORourke Quotes)
I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius. (P J ORourke Quotes)
There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence. (P J ORourke Quotes)
When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They’re in shorts and T-shirts. And it’s not just on airplanes. It’s in business offices, teachers’ lounges, and churches. (P J ORourke Quotes)
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them. (P J ORourke Quotes)
I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived. (P J ORourke Quotes)
If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there’s a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate. (P J ORourke Quotes)
There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force (P J ORourke Quotes)
Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There’d be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. (P J ORourke Quotes)
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It’s also closer. (P J ORourke Quotes)
[We’re] told cars cause pollution. A 100 years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine? (P J ORourke Quotes)
I live in New Hampshire. We’re in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I’ve got beachfront property. You tell us up there, ‘By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,’ and we say, ‘Your point is?’ (P J ORourke Quotes)
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude. (P J ORourke Quotes)
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. (P J ORourke Quotes)
America’s grossly unfair tax system won’t lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Disney’s House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it’s your slate they mean to wipe. (P J ORourke Quotes)
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? (P J ORourke Quotes)
Michael O’Donoghue was a very close friend of mine - very encouraging with my stuff, and really a great guy - but he was a no-kidding difficult person. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do. (P J ORourke Quotes)
Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women’s studies - to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault. (P J ORourke Quotes)
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. (P J ORourke Quotes)