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 life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.
A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.
Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
Never fight an inanimate object.
We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.