01c. 1984 ADBecause of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
02c. 1984 ADPolitics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
03c. 1984 ADThe good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
04c. 1984 ADPeople say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
05c. 1984 ADFiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
06c. 1984 ADWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
07c. 1984 ADThe best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
08c. 1984 ADPolitics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
09c. 1984 ADThe more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
10c. 1984 ADThe problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
11c. 1984 ADI understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
12c. 1984 ADMy dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
13c. 1984 ADI'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
14c. 1984 ADI just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
15c. 1984 ADIf 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 / quote ↗
16c. 1984 ADFeeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
17c. 1984 ADIf you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
18c. 1984 ADSomething that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
20c. 1984 ADBy the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
21c. 1984 ADWe loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
22c. 1984 ADSome 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 / quote ↗
23c. 1984 ADI come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
24c. 1984 ADI spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.P.J. O'Rourke / quote ↗
