When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.
P. J. O'RourkeWe like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.
P. J. O'RourkeFretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed, sanctimonious - way for "progressives" to be racists.
P. J. O'RourkeFinally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.
P. J. O'RourkeDistracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
P. J. O'RourkeMoney is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.
P. J. O'Rourke