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" 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. "

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" It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Behind

Monuments

Edgy

" Ending wars is very simple if you surrender. "

" One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army. "

" Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly. "

" You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor. "

" I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to. "

" When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital. "

" I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about. "

" Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do. "

" There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election. "

" Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance. "

" Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. "

" Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx. "

" A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party. "

" My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. "

" You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be. "

" The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay. "

" I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts. "

" The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. "

" I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. "

" As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion. "

" Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do. "

" Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed. "

" Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods. "

" Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned. "

" Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. "

" Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Making

Fun

" What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. "

" There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick. "

" The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots. "