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" Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Live

People

Ugly

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" I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. "

" Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution. "

" By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire. "

" There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. "

" My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family. "

" No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession. "

" A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too. "

" Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. "

" In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did. "

" The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative. "

" Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy. "

" Never wear anything that panics the cat. "

" In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Taxes

Government

" America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are. "

" I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements. "

" Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives. "

" Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress. "

" Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.' "

" We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this. "

" Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Minds

Facts

" When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. "

" Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye. "

" Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's. "

" My ignorance is widespread. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Ignorance

Widespread

" Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering. "

" As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live. "

" People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans. "

" The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission. "