P. J. O’Rourke best Change Quotes – “Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Car Quotes – “When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Car Quotes – “The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Car Quotes – “By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Car Quotes – “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Business Quotes – “There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Business Quotes – “Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Business Quotes – “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.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Best Quotes – “The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Architecture Quotes – “Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Architecture Quotes – “On inspection, Gaudi’s architecture isn’t whimsical at all.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Anger Quotes – “In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Anger Quotes – “Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn’t mean you’re mad at your mailman.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Anger Quotes – “People are always angry at America. They’re absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.”
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult. – P. J. O'Rourke