P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Government, Republican

  1991 Parliament of Whores.

• The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Humorous, Government

  "Parliament of Whores". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1991.

• The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Party

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, "You're a disgusting, drunken mess." And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Girlfriend, Party, Believe

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Christmas, Money

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Party

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg Health" and seeking to trammel freedom, liberty, and large noisy parties. The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Believe, Health

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

• So what if I don't agree with the Democrats? What's to disagree with? They believe everything. And what they don't believe, the Republicans do. Neither of them stands for anything they believe in, anyway.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Believe, Political

  "Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, May 1991.

• After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Laughter, Humorous

• When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Snakes, Wings

• The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Gun, Shoes

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• When a couple decides to divorce, they should inform both sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends. This is not only courteous but practical. Parents may be very willing to pitch in with comments, criticism, and malicious gossip of their own to help the divorce along.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Couple, Party, Divorce

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

• A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Eight, Interesting

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

• [Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government undertakes to make everything good for everybody, this is what happens. And he addresses it to socialists of all parties.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Party, Government

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party thing aimed at the British. He was an Austrian, writing in Britain. And I feel like now, I guess, everybody pays lip service to libertarian - and, indeed, many conservative - ideas, and yet they keep moving forward with an increasingly bureaucratic state. It shows itself in all sorts of little ways.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Moving, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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