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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

American - Comedian | November 14, 1947 -

Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

Help Easy Why Hard Harm Iraq

Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

Good Politics Bad Politicians Other

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

Selfish Self You Person Nothing Big

Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.

People Black Think Hurt Some People

America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.

America Divorce Appearance Casual

Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.

Medical Care Know Important Reason

Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

Live Dignity Group Head Own May

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

Gun Political Violence Worst Cost

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

Visionary Politicians Whatever May

No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

Success Politics Doubt Ridiculous

I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

Museum Play Never Hong Kong Gone

I don't understand anything about America's culture.

Culture America Understand Anything

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