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
As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.
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.
People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
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.
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.
Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.
The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.