I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter. P. J. O'Rourke politicalreporterstudent Change image and share on social
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human. P. J. O'Rourke adaptivelycarecase share on social
Liberals consider people to be nuisances. P. J. O'Rourke liberalnuisancepeople Change image and share on social
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world. P. J. O'Rourke encompassentirefree Change image and share on social
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. P. J. O'Rourke americagodnation Change image and share on social
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. P. J. O'Rourke bigcheatcompany Change image and share on social
There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring. P. J. O'Rourke admitborecurrency Change image and share on social
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself. P. J. O'Rourke attemptbelievebill 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
