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
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.
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 brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
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.
There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don't believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax.