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Patrick Jake O'Rourke est un écrivain et journaliste américain, né à Toledo le 14 novembre 1947.

✵ 14. novembre 1947  •  Autres noms Patrick Jake O'Rourke, P. J. O´Rourke
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P. J. O'Rourke: 185 citations0 J'aime

P. J. O'Rourke: Citations en anglais

“Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.”

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The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

“Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.”

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Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism (2004)

“Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.”

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Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut (1996)

“Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts— the country has shortages of practically everything.”

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P. J. O'Rourke livre Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Ecology is the science of everything. Nobody knows everything. Nobody even knows everything about any one thing. And most of us don't know much. Say it's ten-thirty on a Saturday night. Where are your teenage children? I didn't ask where they said they were going. Where are they really? What are they doing? Who are they with? Have you met the other kids' families? And what is tonight's pot smoking, wine-cooler drinking, and sex in the backseats of cars going to mean in a hundred years? Now extend these questions to the entire solar system.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“War is a great asshole magnet.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Even newlyweds don't spend much time together, now that few marriages outlast the appliance warranties.”

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The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

“The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.”

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P. J. O'Rourke livre Parliament of Whores

Source: Parliament of Whores (1991), p. 14

“The American political system is like a gigantic Mexican Christmas fiesta. Each political party is a huge piñata — a papier-mâché donkey, for example. The donkey is filled with full employment, low interest rates, affordable housing, comprehensive medical benefits, a balanced budget and other goodies. The American voter is blindfolded and given a stick. The voter then swings the stick wildly in every direction, trying to hit a political candidate on the head and knock some sense into the silly bastard.”

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P. J. O'Rourke livre Parliament of Whores

Parliament of Whores (1991)

“There are two organizations pushing for change in November — al Qaeda and the Democratic party. And they both have the same message: 'We're going to fix you, America.' On the whole, the terrorists have a more straightforward plan for fixing things. They're going to blow themselves up. Although, come to think of it, Howard Dean did that.”

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"Putting Words in the President's Mouth" (12 October 2004)

“I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.”

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A Message to Redistributionists (1997)

“There's only one secret to bachelor cooking — not caring how it tastes.”

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The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

“She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters.”

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Endorsing Hillary Clinton for President over Donald Trump, May 7, 2016 http://www.npr.org/2016/05/09/477339063/conservative-author-pj-orourke-reluctantly-backs-clinton on NPR

“Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“I am no stranger to loud noise. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.”

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P. J. O'Rourke livre Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.”

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Roast of Robert Novak at the Conservative Political Action Committee (11 February 1994)

“A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty — their power and privilege — to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by … politicians”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Every generation finds the drug it needs.”

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P. J. O'Rourke livre Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.”

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P. J. O'Rourke livre Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon politicians who have another agenda yet: to cater to the temporary whims and fads of the public and the press.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Saigon is like all the other great modern cities of the world. It's the mess left from people getting rich.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Marijuana is […] self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?”

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Rolling Stone (November 1989), as cited in The Yale Book of Quotations https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0300107986, ed. Fred Shapiro, Yale University Press (2006), p. 567

“Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.”

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P. J. O'Rourke livre Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“The typical old-fashioned diet was so bad it almost resembled modern dieting.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

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