P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today, ' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.
The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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.
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.