[mc5cents]

Some of my favorite P.J. quotes:

"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."

"Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer. We can just step off the sidewalk. And sometimes we can get impressionable members of the opposite sex to perform sacramental rites with us. "Every drop of water wasted is a drop less of a wild and scenic river, Jennifer. We'd better double up in the shower."

And probably my favorite:
"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 health care, 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." -- P.J. O'Rourke

[Joe Bonforte]

Some of my favorite P.J. quotes...

For me, nothing beats this one, penned during the attempt to get HillaryCare approved:

"If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it's free."

[WindMinstrel]

don't forget

"Politics should be limited in scope to war, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class."

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys."

"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us."

[Cosmo]

"Never refuse wine. It's a widely known fact that people who refuse wine are alcoholics."
---From "Modern Manners: The Etiquette Book for Rude People (I may have flubbed the syntax a bit, but you get the idea)

[beckett]

I like this one:

The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there's nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.

PJ O'Rourke

[discostu]

My favorite comes from the preface to Give War a Chance, where he admits to being a draft dodger (from memory, please excuse mistakes):
and because I didn't go somebody had to go in my place. To that person, whoever you are, I hope you made it back in one piece and have led a life filled with joy since then. And when that guy in uniform punched me in the face for being a no good commie faggot I hope that was you.

[Protagoras]

Great "O'rourkisms",,,Thanks