P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourkeis an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. Since 2011 O'Rourke has been a columnist at The Daily Beast. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 November 1947
CountryUnited States of America
The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.