You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. P. J. O'Rourke beatbeginbeirut share on social
Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001. P. J. O'Rourke 000001concern Change image and share on social
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. P. J. O'Rourke archetypalcountrydaniel Change image and share on social
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. P. J. O'Rourke diemansoon Change image and share on social
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse. P. J. O'Rourke badlyguyhappen Change image and share on social
Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too. P. J. O'Rourke assurecheckpointcrazy Change image and share on social
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. P. J. O'Rourke carefullychildconcept Change image and share on social
Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.' P. J. O'Rourke actionaffirmativebet share on social
The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics. P. J. O'Rourke aspectlifemove Change image and share on social
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks. P. J. O'Rourke antithesisbagblack share on social
