You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
P. J. O'RourkeIn theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
P. J. O'RourkeFashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.
P. J. O'RourkeIn the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.
P. J. O'Rourke