The best Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

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.

They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

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They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Miami - which is kinda the same.

You can leave Miami, but it will never leave you.

Miami is bringing in more guns, drugs and hot cars than any other city on the East Coast.

Phil Rask in StartUp - Season 1 Episode 3

I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet.

Shaquille O'Neal

Miami Orlando

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

Tom Wolfe

What's so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We're just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

DJ Khaled

But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.

Lil' Kim

My allies are the United States and Israel and, what's more, I'll move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Javier Milei

Jerusalem Tel Aviv

I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.

Yair Lapid

Jerusalem Tel Aviv

I've heard it's a special place, that Tel Aviv is exciting and that the atmosphere is excellent.

James Blunt

Tel Aviv

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

V in V for Vendetta

Democracy Governments

Thor: "Do you see yourself above them?"
Loki: "Oh yes."
Thor: "Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother."

Thor in The Avengers

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Anthony Burgess in The Wanting Seed

You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.

William Wallace in Braveheart

Power Governments

Bullets change governments far surer than votes.

Simeon Weisz in Lord of War - Händler des Todes

Weapons Revolution Governments

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

William H. Taft

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

Warren G. Harding

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Joanne K. Rowling

Internet Teenagers

Abstinence is a healthy choice, that many teens will make. Either by choice, or, as I can attest, by circumstance.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) - Sex Education

Sex Teenagers

Long distance is a lie teenagers tell each other to get laid the summer before college.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 1 Episode 16

College Long-Distance Relationships Teenagers

Teenagers. They're hormon-soaked brains aren't wired to think about anyone other than themselves.

Veronica Fisher in Shameless - Season 2 Episode 6

They're teenagers, man. They're really stupid, so you should blend right in.

Captain Dickson in 21 Jump Street

It's a statistical impossibility for a sixteen-year-old to unplug a telephone.

Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 2 Episode 9

Ah, teenagers! I feel for you, son. But, on the other hand - payback's a b*tch!

Red Forman in That '90s Show - Season 1 Episode 1

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Henry Kissinger

Corruption Politicians

I basically think everybody would be better off if people weren't able to exert so much influence on politicians with money.

Bernie Madoff

When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.

Kamal Haasan

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

James K. Polk

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Joe Biden

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

Studs Terkel

Chicago Corruption

Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

Morena Baccarin

Brazil Corruption South America

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent... leave that to me.

Eminem

Sex Violence Drugs

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Bob Marley

Alcohol Drugs Marijuana & Weed

It's not the drugs that make a drug addict, it's the need to escape reality.

Sense8

I take quaaludes ten to fifteen times a day for my "back pain", adderall tostay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again and morphine well... 'cause its awesome.

Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

Drugs Cocaine

I don't like the drugs, doc. The drugs like me.

Hank Moody in Californication - Season 4 Episode 3

Hold me, I can't breathe
I don't wanna die, I don't wanna OD
Cup full of lean, pure codeine
Ten lines deep, now I can't see

Lil Peep - Falling 4 Me, Album: Crybaby