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
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.
One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.
Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.