American - Comedian | November 14, 1947 -
If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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Politics won't allow for the truth.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
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I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.
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We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
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