P. J. O’Rourke

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish…

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy…

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies…

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health…

Never fight an inanimate object…

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal…

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends…

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to…

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health…

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle…

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world – and this is certainly…

People are always angry at America. They’re absolutely certain that America either caused their problems…

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck…

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope…

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner…