American - Comedian | November 14, 1947 -
Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
P. J. O'Rourke
AgePoliticsYouOutField
The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
TeaPeoplePoliticalPartyBeenWho
Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
ChildRoadDirectionDownGoStreet
Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
YourselfBaseballHappyTeamBetter
The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.
FunWritingTerribleOne ThingAbout
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
WarSayingDoingYouWantSide
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
AmericanFlourishEnglish
No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
HealthBoatLoseHouseSeeBills
I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.
MeRichI CanGoNowNothing
I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
LiveBeautifulEnoughLongNewKind
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
PositiveElectionRightsStarted
Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
RespectGovernmentSeriousDoneWay
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict P. J. O'Rourke quotes