O'Rourke

Quotes From Chairman P.J.

P.J. is 22,862 days old today.  Since I've never heard him say or write anything that wasn't devilishly profound, what if mom had the foresight to hire a stenographer in 1947?  To be at his side, recording every utterance from day one?  Okay, the first 300 days, not so much, but then!  Sigh.  Anyway, this is some of what we do have. “Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.” “The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.” “At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosphy of sniveling brats.” “Anything that makes your mother cry is fun” “These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.”                “Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton administration is putting a high-powered coporate lawyer -- Hillary -- in charge of making it cheaper. (This is what I always do when I want to spend less money -- hire a lawyer from Yale.) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.”       “You can't get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.”          “A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.”                       “Guns are always the best method for private suicide. Drugs are too chancy. You might just miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.”     “Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle. There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”     “The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop”        MORE-MORE-MORE H/T TimW "The man is a genius"