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
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
I read good. I was an English major.
I'm really tired of virtue.
You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.
Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?
Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.