Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for. P. J. O'Rourke burdendutyequip Change image and share on social
I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal. P. J. O'Rourke abysmalcarcurtain Change image and share on social
Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives. P. J. O'Rourke argueattemptconservative Change image and share on social
I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again. P. J. O'Rourke backdemocratmaoist Change image and share on social
When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place. P. J. O'Rourke assumeelitegutter Change image and share on social
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising. P. J. O'Rourke amidconservativefundraise Change image and share on social
More modern poetry is written than read. P. J. O'Rourke modernpoetryread Change image and share on social
You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be. P. J. O'Rourke funhavemotivate Change image and share on social
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. P. J. O'Rourke americanforeigngovernment 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
