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
I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.