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
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.
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.
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.
The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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.
When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.