P. J. O'Rourke

Quotes

1. Chapter Four: A Huck So Unlike Finn: July 26, 2015

2. 

   Chapter Two: The Abominable Showman: June 16, 2015

3. 

   Chapter 27: I Endorse Hillary Clinton

   • Politics

4. 

   Chapter Three: The Horror! The Horror!

5. 

   Chapter One: The Campaign Begins: Ready, Set, Go to Hell

   • Politics

6. 

   The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

   • Stupidity

7. 

   To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

8. 

   These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

   • Politics
   • Hypocrisy

9. 

   Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

   • Politics
   • War

10. 

    Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

    • Identity

11. 

    In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.

    • Life

12. 

    The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.

    • Politics