re: Famous Americans Quote Threads

"People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs." ~ P. J. O'Rourke

"As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place." ~ P. J. O'Rourke

"Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of." ~ P. J. O'Rourke

"God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell." ~ P. J. O'Rourke

"Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class." ~ P. J. O'Rourke

"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased." ~ P. J. O'Rourke

"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." ~ P. J. O'Rourke

"I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists." ~ P. J. O'Rourke

"Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism." ~ P. J. O'Rourke