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. P. J. O'Rourke bypasscarcounter Change image and share on social
Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help? P. J. O'Rourke easyhardharm 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
I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses. P. J. O'Rourke brownchinadog Change image and share on social
A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers. P. J. O'Rourke columnfastfunny share on social
There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats. P. J. O'Rourke americanbadlydemocrat 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
I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan. P. J. O'Rourke countryegyptobservant Change image and share on social
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. P. J. O'Rourke alagovernmenthuman 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
