When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'RourkeWhenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.
P. J. O'RourkeWest Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.
P. J. O'RourkeYou can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.
P. J. O'RourkeEl Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.
P. J. O'RourkeI buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."
P. J. O'Rourke