I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.
P. J. O'RourkeAnyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
P. J. O'RourkeThe question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.
P. J. O'RourkeThe wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.
P. J. O'RourkeOff they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.
P. J. O'Rourke